Christopher Redinger is a Principal Software Engineer with 18 years of experience, specializing in Clojure, ClojureScript and Datomic while driving production systems and compiler correctness. He has held senior roles at Cognitect and Nubank and brings deep backend expertise from long-term work on projects like the ClojureScript compiler and the Pedestal server libraries. Christopher’s open-source contributions include bug fixes and refactors that improved compiler semantics and server-sent events handling, demonstrating a focus on correctness and robust async patterns. Comfortable across JVM and web stacks, he also has a background in Rails integrations and practical security improvements. Based in Fuquay-Varina, NC, he pairs advanced academic training (M.S. in Computer Science) with a decades-long track record of evolving systems and developer tooling.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at University of Southern Maine
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Pedestal server-side libraries. Their contributions included removing sample code, dependencies, and copyright notices from generated application templates. They addressed bugs related to SSE (Server-Sent Events), switching from a `with-pause` approach to a `core.async` based model, and also updating test cases to reflect the changes.
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed to the `facebooker` Rails plugin, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to Facebook integration within Rails applications. The commits demonstrate modifications to form builders, including adding functionality for specifying names and implementing protection against forgery. Additionally, the user ensured Facebook session key validation and modified the Rails initialization for handling Facebook sessions. These changes reflect a focus on improving the plugin's security and functionality.
ruby-on-railsrailsrubyrails-plugin
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Christopher Redinger - Principal Software Engineer at Nubank