Christopher Tate
Principal Software Engineer at Computate
North Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Tate is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native, event-driven automation and self-healing infrastructure at Red Hat, where he also leads research initiatives and architects social innovation programs. He created the Smart Village Operator and Smart Village Platform and founded the Smarta Byar FIWARE Innovation Hub, applying open source to civic and rural development at scale. Previously he architected resilient data backends, search and geolocation systems, and large classroom VM environments, blending NoSQL, SQL, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ and REST APIs across Python, C# and Java stacks. Christopher combines hands-on technical delivery with program-level leadership—running hackathons, research collaborations with Boston University, and a consulting portfolio in financial services. Based in North Salt Lake, he favors pragmatic, people-centered systems that can be reused in many places, reflecting his long-standing commitment to making open tools broadly accessible. An entrepreneurial technologist, he also runs his own company, Computate, alongside his Red Hat role.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (128)
ecology10
controller10
toolbox10
sockjs10
non-blocking10
reactive10
solr10
bootstrapping10
java10
bayesian10
meta-analysis10
predictive10
solr-search10
forecasting10
vertx10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
computate-org/computate_zookeeper
Dec 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 1 year 5 months
computate-org/computate-scolaire
Mar 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:433 commits, 9 PRs, 415 pushes in 3 years
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