Kristopher Reynolds
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristopher Reynolds is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building high-performance, scalable native applications in C++ and Rust across defense, medical, and consumer electronics. He combines hands‑on systems programming with technical leadership—mentoring teams, teaching modern C++ and CMake, and driving DevOps and CI transformations at organizations like Lockheed Martin, Terumo BCT, and Amazon. Kristopher has a strong track record of modernizing build systems and CI (including a GitLab CI used by 45 engineers and a CMake redesign that halved build times) and contributes backend fixes and feature work to open-source tools such as release-drafter. Based in New Hampshire, he pairs academic rigor (MS and BS in Computer Science) with practical results: improved testability, measurable static-analysis gains, and scalable delivery on safety- and mission-critical systems.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.6, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.6 at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.7, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.7 at Plymouth State University
English
Github Skills (9)
github-ci10
javascript10
release-automation10
githubaction-workflow10
releasenotes10
probot10
testing9
nodejs9
yaml7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
release-drafter/release-drafter
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Drafts your next release notes as pull requests are merged into master.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kristopher primarily contributed to the backend logic of the release-drafter application. Their work involved implementing and refining features related to including specific labels in the release notes. The user also fixed a bug related to filtering labels and consolidated configuration assignments. Furthermore, the commits demonstrate the integration of new features, and merging of branches.
mergednotesprobot-apprelease-notesrelease-automation
kris-reynolds/cstore
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 5 pushes in 12 days
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