Christopher Roberts
Senior Backend Software Developer at FlightAware
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Roberts is a Senior Backend Software Developer based in Houston with 14 years building resilient, production-grade systems—currently advancing FlightAware’s backend after progressing through multiple engineering roles there. He brings deep systems and low-level experience from earlier work at Qualcomm, where he built Python tooling, visualizers for very large datasets, and explored ARMv8 virtualization and microbenchmarking. Comfortable debugging the toughest failures ("likes code even when it doesn't work quite right"), he blends curiosity-driven investigation with pragmatic engineering to improve observability and performance. A double major in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from UT Austin, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on skill in Python, backend architecture, and tooling that supports large-scale telemetry systems.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering and Computer Science (double major), Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering and Computer Science (double major) at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (182)
python10
automation10
custom-element10
home-assistant10
rtl-sdr10
mqtt10
pandas10
linux10
tunneling10
home-automation10
garden10
proxy-server10
java10
iot10
android-app10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
NasaGeek/base16-builder
Oct 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
base16-builderbase16builder
flightaware/firestarter
Apr 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 27 reviews, 83 commits in 2 years
dockerdocker-composepython3flightawarefirehose
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