Christopher Towner
Senior System Design Architect at Adobe
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Towner is a Senior System Design Architect based in Austin with nearly two decades of experience leading engineering teams and designing resilient, scalable systems. He blends hands-on polyglot engineering with strategic architecture work—driving platform migrations, high-availability API improvements (from 0.94 to 0.9999), and building a streaming feature store with Apache Flink. Comfortable across cloud, data, and infra stacks, he has owned data platforms serving hundreds of engineers and data scientists using Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, Cassandra, Redshift and Databricks. A clear communicator and meticulous documenter, he routinely authors requirements and technical specs as a group tech lead and champions data quality with automated testing and anomaly detection. Beyond enterprise systems, he contributes to open-source projects such as the Java port of Box2D, improving JavaFX testbeds and UI ergonomics—demonstrating curiosity that spans low-level performance fixes to UX details. Known for an aggressive, competitive drive, he pairs fast execution with thoughtful process and mentoring across organizations.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Neumont University
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jbox2d/jbox2d
Jun 2017 - Oct 2021
a 2d Java physics engine, native java port of the C++ physics engines Box2D and LiquidFun
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed to the JavaFX testbed, implementing features related to user interface and test environment improvements. Their work includes separating scroll and zoom handling, fixing key event handling for character input, making the canvas resizable, and enhancing the UI with category hyphens. Additionally, they addressed a compilation error and a serialization issue within the project. These changes span both front-end (UI) and potentially backend (physics engine interaction) aspects of the testbed.
box2dcppjavaphysics-engine
christopwner/boomi-utils
Jun 2017 - Jul 2018
Utility scripts for Dell Boomi.
Contributions:39 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
boomi
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