Christopher Skorka
Senior Software Engineer at Newbook
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Skorka is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with eight years of experience building full-stack and large-scale systems using Python, PHP, Java, C and modern web technologies. He has moved between senior engineering roles at product-focused companies like NewBook and Neara, bringing practical experience in backend services and web platforms. Christopher pairs academic strengths—award-winning performance at Griffith University and formal research on smart contract verification—with competitive cybersecurity accomplishments at international challenges. He has delivered applied projects ranging from public utilities search tools for GovHack to data science work for a government department, showing versatility across domains. Known for a pragmatic, success-oriented approach, he often blends security-minded thinking into production engineering. Outside paid roles he has led volunteer tech efforts and community outreach, reflecting a habit of shipping useful software that serves people.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, GPA: 6.17, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, GPA: 6.17 at Griffith UniversityATAR: 87.60, ATAR: 87.60 at Kingcliff High School
Github Skills (4)
extraction5
ckan4
data-management3
metadata3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisSkorka/Chatty-Chat
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
Web programming assignment chat web app
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
javascriptchatweb-programmingweb-chat-appweb-chat
geological-survey-of-queensland/gsq-metadata-extraction
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Metadata extraction from filepaths
Contributions:23 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
extractiondata-managementfilepathsmetadata-extractionmetadata
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