Christopher Porter
Staff Software Engineer at Asana
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Porter is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale data and backend systems across Java, Node.js, Python, R, and cloud infrastructure. He has led platform and technical teams to deliver resilient, high-throughput services—designing time-series databases ingesting tens of millions of readings per day, architecting scalable event and access-control systems for health data, and optimizing deployments and monitoring on AWS. Christopher combines hands-on coding and DevOps with people leadership, mentoring engineers and shaping product strategy at companies focused on energy, health, and climate impact. Known for pragmatic architecture and reliability-first thinking, he also has a track record of squeezing performance from systems and moving critical time-series workloads into faster, more reliable stores. Based in Vancouver, he brings deep domain experience in energy and public-health data systems and a knack for translating complex data needs into production-ready infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (20)
spelling10
mathjs9
nodejs8
hubot7
geopandas7
sql7
orm7
opentelemetry6
electric-vehicles6
auth6
latex5
opentelemetry-collector5
tesla5
percona4
jupyter4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
canadianveggie/spellie
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Spellie - a daily Wordle-like game for young spellers
Contributions:12 releases, 65 reviews, 250 commits in 1 year
gamewordlekidsspellingkids-learning-app
canadianveggie/ev-map
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Analyzing Canada's highways for EV accessibility
Contributions:2 releases, 35 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
accessibilityelectric-vehiclesevgeopandasjupyter
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