Summary
Christopher Shroba is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, high-throughput systems, currently working at Figma and formerly shipping core features at Google that processed terabytes of Ads data per second. He has a strong backend focus—proficient in C++, Python, gRPC/Protobuf, Spanner, Java, and distributed system design—and has driven projects that halved p99 latencies through pipeline redesigns and careful rollout playbooks. Christopher pairs hands-on implementation with robust testing, monitoring, and migration strategies, and has experience guiding client integrations and cross-functional stakeholders. His background includes end-to-end feature delivery at startups and large companies alike, from Django and Flask web apps to internal Google infrastructure. Trained at UIUC with a BS and MS in Computer Science, he brings both academic rigor and practical operational experience to performance-critical services. A pragmatic engineer, he routinely simulates failure scenarios to harden deployments before production rollout.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign