Christopher Sampson
Software Engineer at Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Sampson is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building reliable client- and server-side systems, currently at Fender in Salt Lake City. He specializes in Go, SQL, containers, and cloud infrastructure, and has a strong track record of pragmatic backend and DevOps contributions—most notably improving configuration, API, and profiling-related code in the open-source Pyroscope project. Christopher moves fluidly between full-stack responsibilities and infrastructure work, having implemented backend APIs, database architectures, and cloud-hosted services in prior roles. He is collaborative by practice, prioritizing efficient, maintainable solutions through team deliberation and iterative refactoring. Off the clock he’s an avid hiker in the mountains of Utah and a reader of computer science literature, reflecting a blend of outdoor endurance and technical curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Valencia CollegeComputer Science, Current, Computer Science, Current at Codeup
English
Github Skills (11)
golang10
go10
profiler10
devops10
data-profiling10
profiling10
performance-monitor9
performance-analysis9
monitoring9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/pyroscope
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs in 28 days
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed to the configuration and functionality of the Pyroscope platform by addressing code-related issues, fixing malformed struct tags, and removing unnecessary code. They made updates to the API and server configurations, ensuring code quality. Moreover, the user made improvements to testing and refactored code to enhance readability, while also making changes to export and display data within the application.
pythonobservabilitydeveloper-toolspyroscopemonitoring
cjsampson/portfolio
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:73 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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