Christopher Valarida
Staff Software Engineer at MO
Salem, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Valarida is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building high-impact frontend platforms and developer tooling across enterprise and government projects. He blends hands-on coding in TypeScript, Python, Rust, and Go with pragmatic engineering practices—CI/CD, automated testing, RFCs, and improved static typing—to consistently boost team velocity and reduce operational friction. Notable work includes leading frontend efforts that cut VA.gov build times in half, architecting Compass’s Agent Order Experience to improve fulfillment and adoption, and improving GraphQL tooling and type-generation across organizations. An autodidact who thrives on asking questions, he combines product-minded leadership with deep implementation skills, from accessibility and design systems to rudimentary pentesting and DevOps. Based in Salem, Oregon, he’s comfortable owning end-to-end delivery and the often-overlooked infrastructure and docs that make large projects sustainable.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code Camp
English, German
Github Skills (54)
json10
schema-validation10
npm-package10
frontend10
user-feedback9
json-schema9
npm9
web-components9
python9
api9
nodejs9
rad9
react9
templating9
oms8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cvalarida/dotfiles
Oct 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:24 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
cvalarida/name-picker
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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