Craig Gardner
Principal Engineer at Rootstock Software
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Gardner is a Principal Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with over 16 years of hands-on software experience and more than 20 years in engineering and management roles. He has led sizable teams and strategic initiatives—building a Dealer Management System, designing high-capacity Kafka data pipelines, and implementing continuous delivery with automated regression testing. Equally comfortable modernizing legacy Java systems and shipping real-time web and mobile features, he pairs deep technical chops with a track record of mentoring engineers and driving cultural change. His career spans startups and enterprise teams, from building cloud-based call center infrastructure to migrating version control systems and crafting production-grade data access layers. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often combines systems-level thinking with practical automation to keep delivery predictable at scale.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
SantanaCertificate Computer and Information Sciences General, Certificate Computer and Information Sciences General at Coleman College
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (106)
bash10
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shell9
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command-line9
taskwarrior9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cgardner/dotfiles-bare
Sep 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:61 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
cgardner/dotfiles
Jun 2010 - Jun 2020
Contributions:399 commits, 120 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 1 month
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