Christopher Sidell
Staff Software Engineer at OnePay
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Sidell is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems and a founder's mindset from running his own company, CryeCSS LLC. He specializes in authentication, authorization, and onboarding platforms, and has driven architecture and infrastructure work at companies including Roblox (Guilded), PayPal (Honey), and Earny. Christopher blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—designing distributed token signing registries, encryption-as-a-service, large-scale cloud migrations, and automation tooling—with a habit of continuous refactoring and documentation to reduce errors and improve maintainability. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he pairs product-focused engineering with mentoring and interview design, and is known for exploring new technologies to solve practical problems. An unusual strength is that he repeatedly leads cross-cutting initiatives (from service mesh layouts to CLI ecosystems) that turn ad-hoc solutions into extensible platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (200)
client-library10
arangodb10
service-discovery10
playback10
vault10
nodejs10
user-interface10
html5-audio10
frontend10
api-client10
windows10
docker-desktop10
declarative10
data-center10
audio10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Sieabah/blodash
Apr 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 3 months
lodash
umbc-sga/iTracker
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:189 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 5 months
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