Kristofer Shinn
CTO at Fairground
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristofer Shinn is a hands-on CTO and fractional CTO with 11+ years of senior leadership experience building and scaling engineering organizations across onshore and offshore teams. He has led large infrastructure efforts—most recently ramping Infura to serve billions of daily requests with four nines reliability and driving a FinOps program that saved over $20M annually—while maintaining a penchant for individual contribution across full-stack, embedded, and data systems. Comfortable across AWS cloud architecture, Python, Go, C/C++, Java, and modern web stacks, he combines DevOps-first practices with pragmatic product-focused delivery. Kristofer has repeatedly built metrics-driven cultures that span SRE, QA, data engineering, and project management, and has launched commercial node-as-a-service offerings. He pairs technical breadth (from embedded device fleets to PySpark data lakes and high-performance caching) with real-world hiring and vendor management experience across multiple geographies. Based in Los Angeles, he also brings an uncommon background in music composition, reflecting a creative problem-solving approach to complex engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at California State University, Northridge
Github Skills (105)
cryptocurrency10
backend10
p2p10
wallet10
javascript10
api10
typescript10
indexing10
ethereum10
blockchain10
graphql10
frontend10
solidity9
golang9
geth9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
INFURA/ethdenver-2019
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Infura's EthDenver Hackathon resources
Contributions:23 commits, 1 push in 12 days
ethereuminfuraethdenver
INFURA/ethql-examples
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
EthQL example applications
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes in 8 months
reacttypescriptgraphql
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