Kristofer White
Staff Software Engineer at EDGE
Joliet, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristofer White is a Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years building scalable, distributed systems and automation across startups and midsize companies, currently at EDGE after senior leadership roles at Buildout and CityBase. He’s polyglot—comfortable in Ruby, Go, Python, Rust and Erlang/Elixir—and pairs backend systems work with hands-on ops, CI/CD and configuration management to ship resilient platforms. His specialty is application scaling, task automation and concurrency, and he actively explores algorithmic complexity, garbage collection and non-web programming. An open-source contributor, he’s enhanced user-facing tooling like an ncurses XMPP client and improved Redis monitoring UIs, reflecting a practical focus on usability as well as systems plumbing. Based in Joliet, IL, he blends deep systems knowledge with a pragmatic product mindset and a hobbyist interest in graphics programming.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of TechnologyComputer and Information Services, Computer and Information Services at Joliet Junior College
Github Skills (20)
xmpp10
ncurses10
javascript10
messaging10
redis10
command-line-interface10
c-programming10
c1110
ui-design10
c1710
uid10
chat10
xmp10
front-end-development10
jabber9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
profanity-im/profanity
Nov 2013 - Mar 2014
Ncurses based XMPP client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kristofer primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the XMPP client. Their contributions included implementing password handling for joining chatrooms, modifying the command structure, and adjusting whitespace consistency. Additionally, they refined the parsing of arguments for the `/join` command, demonstrating a focus on user interface and command usability.
xmppprivacychatfederationxmpp-client
steelThread/redmon
Apr 2012 - Apr 2012
A web interface for managing redis: cli, admin, and live monitoring
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Kristofer primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the visualization of data within the `redmon` application. Their commits involved swapping the charting library from Highcharts to Flot, demonstrating a shift in UI components. They made significant changes to the `redmon.js` file, implementing the Flot library for memory and keyspace data visualization, with associated formatting for the y-axis. Furthermore, they addressed layout consistency and reduced the number of displayed elements.
redisadminweb-interfacesinatraredis-streams
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