Christopher Poenaru
Member Of Technical Staff at Keycard
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolChristopher Poenaru is a Staff platform engineer with 11 years of experience designing secure, scalable distributed systems and a proven track record enabling Fortune 500 partnerships. He builds high-throughput services, zero-trust infrastructure, and multi-tenant isolation platforms—having led a Platform Security org from 0 to 14 engineers and shipped a centralized token service serving 30K+ QPS. His work spans automated data deletion and certificate rotation systems, PKI and mTLS rollouts, and extensional routing for strict data residency and compliance across global regions. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and a cross-organizational leader, he has repeatedly translated sharp security and compliance requirements into production-ready, auditable systems. Based in Squamish, BC, he combines deep backend and infrastructure craft with a history of operationalizing novel patterns (e.g., introducing Go/gRPC and org-wide best practices) at scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Rift Valley AcademyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
stream10
vault10
strava-api10
slick-pg10
polyline10
slick10
kinesis-stream10
stun10
encoder-decoder10
scala-native9
cats-effect9
printing9
markdown9
akka-streams9
golang9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kiambogo/t-rex
Jun 2017 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 5 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 8 months
publishingmvtrextilevector-tile
trifectalabs/polyline-scala
Jun 2015 - Mar 2018
Scala Polyline Encoder and Decoder
Contributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 9 months
macrospolyline-encoderdecoderscala3scala
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