Larry Christensen
Principal Software Engineer at TaxBit
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLarry Christensen is a Principal Software Engineer based in Salt Lake City with 16+ years building full‑stack and cloud‑native systems and over a decade focused on production cloud architectures that scale to millions of users and billions of events per day. He’s led teams and founded products—single‑handedly building OrcPub to a global audience—and now drives cloud architecture and blockchain work at TaxBit. Larry’s strengths are designing resilient, secure, and cost‑effective serverless data pipelines and CI/CD systems, often implemented in Clojure/ClojureScript, Java, Kotlin, and Python. He combines hands‑on engineering with teaching others (running AWS training at Overstock) and consulting in Clojure, showing both deep technical craft and a knack for translating complex problems into maintainable systems. An avid builder in his spare time, his GitHub contributions include full‑stack features for OrcPub’s D&D character builder, reflecting a taste for user-focused tooling layered on robust backend logic.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
English
Github Skills (8)
clojure10
javascript10
clojure-cli10
re-frame10
react10
backend9
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
larrychristensen/orcpub
Dec 2016 - Sep 2018
Code for OrcPub2.com
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2807 commits, 15 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Larry's commits show work on a D&D 5e character builder application, implementing features for a spell builder and adding functionality for selecting race-specific traits. They modified the character builder interface by introducing tool proficiency options to the race builder and enabling users to choose a spellcasting ability for the character. Furthermore, the user worked on a range of backend logic components related to spellcasting and homebrew creation by integrating the custom spells with existing API.
larrychristensen/reagent-test
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch, 4 issues in 1 month
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