Christopher Pitstick
Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Platform)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Pitstick is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud platform engineering with over a decade of experience spanning government research, FANG, and startups. He builds and maintains hybrid cloud Kubernetes and Terraform stacks (GCP/AWS), with deep expertise in cost control and production infrastructure for data-heavy teams. A pragmatic full-stack thinker, he enjoys understanding systems from hardware to global datacenters and brings tenacious problem-solving honed at Amazon, Argo AI, and Latitude AI. An active open-source contributor to the widely used xrdp project, he’s implemented dynamic multi-monitor and DRDYNVC support, reflecting his low-level systems chops alongside cloud fluency. Outside work he codes Ludum Dare game jams and is learning TypeScript and Go, bringing both breadth and a detail-oriented mindset informed by his neurodivergent perspective.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Science and Computer Engineering at University of Dayton
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Github Skills (11)
c1710
linux10
rdp10
c1110
remote-desktop10
rd10
unit-testing8
aws-lambda6
amazon-dynamodb6
boto6
python6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
neutrinolabs/xrdp
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
xrdp: an open source RDP server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:151 reviews, 23 commits, 55 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the development of the xrdp RDP server, focusing on implementing features related to dynamic monitor support, including resolution switching and multi-monitor handling. They added functionality to process monitor layouts, handle display control messages, and integrate with dynamic virtual channel (DRDYNVC) functionality. The user also addressed bugs, performed refactoring, and added unit tests for the monitor processing logic.
xrdplinuxremote-desktoprdpc
Nexarian/xrdp
Jan 2021 - Mar 2024
xrdp: an open source RDP server
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 673 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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