Christian Lent, Developer in Columbus, OH, United States
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Christian Lent

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Software Developer

Location
Columbus, OH, United States
Toptal Member Since
April 14, 2020

Christian is a full-stack engineer with management experience and placements ranging from growing startups to large scale enterprises such as Walmart Labs and Huntington National Bank. His focus is on web and cloud application development with a specialty in client-side development, primarily with React and Redux. Additionally, Christian has experience developing native applications (Android, iOS, Windows) and facilitating agile transformations.

ReactReduxMySQLMariaDBPHPLaravelAmazon Web Services (AWS)ScrumDjangoTypeScriptNode.jsDockerCSSREST APIsAmazon EC2Win32

Portfolio

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Python, JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artifactory...
Walmart Labs (via Apex Systems)
TypeScript, Redux, React
BehaviorCloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, MySQL, Django, Python, Material UI...

Experience

JavaScript - 9 yearsMariaDB - 8 yearsRedux - 3 yearsReact - 3 yearsNode.js - 2 yearsReact Native - 2 yearsDocker - 2 yearsTypeScript - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Google, Slack, Android, Firefox, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Git, Debian Linux

The most amazing...

...application I've created is a cloud platform for behavioral and neuroscientific research called BehaviorCloud.

Work Experience

Chief AI Engineer

2020 - PRESENT
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
  • Created development tools to facilitate the secure, bi-directional exchange of health information between healthcare providers and Anthem’s affiliated health plans—Health OS.
  • Collaborated with technical writers to document our tools and create a portal for the distribution of these documents.
  • Managed a small team of five engineers to support and architect a framework through which other teams could create certain microservices within the Anthem Health OS project.
  • Worked with artificial intelligence experts to lay the foundation for future AI-based microservices within Health OS.
Technologies: Python, JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artifactory, Mypy, GitLab CI/CD, Solution Architecture

Staff Software Engineer

2019 - PRESENT
Walmart Labs (via Apex Systems)
  • Authored and documented key components of the new generation of Walmart Labs' client-side platform.
  • Evangelized the new generation of the platform to existing users.
  • Supported other teams in their usage of the platform.
Technologies: TypeScript, Redux, React

Co-founder

2017 - PRESENT
BehaviorCloud
  • Designed and implemented an experimentation framework with the flexibility to acquire, analyze, and archive experimental data with the dynamically determined format.
  • Implemented a RESTful API with the Django REST framework.
  • Wrote a single-page web client using React, Redux, and Material UI.
  • Collaborated on a cloud-based video tracking application within our experimentation framework.
  • Adopted cloud technologies—AWS S3, EC2, ECS, CloudFront, and RDS—to ensure scalability.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, MySQL, Django, Python, Material UI, TypeScript, Redux, React Native, React, Solution Architecture

Lead Developer

2013 - 2018
Acceptd, Inc.
  • Transitioned the product to less expensive and more reliable technology vendors—resulting in a 50% decrease in hosting costs during their first full season in-house.
  • Led the transition of their RESTful API from CakePHP to Laravel.
  • Migrated the existing web content into a single-page application using React.
  • Established an agile process for product development that is responsive to stakeholder feedback.
  • Led the integration of modern development tools into their workflows such as NPM, Vagrant, Composer, Ansible, ESLint, and Webpack.
  • Created performant, scalable solutions and eliminated existing bottlenecks as their database grew by over 4,000%.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), MySQL, Laravel, PHP, JavaScript, Redux, React, Solution Architecture

Senior Software Consultant (with Cardinal Solutions)

2012 - 2013
Huntington National Bank
  • Helped Huntington’s business online team meet aggressive timelines for a full ASP.NET redesign implementation.
  • Interacted with Huntington’s data team to consume data tier web services in C#.
  • Consulted with Huntington’s online acquisition team to add immediate-response credit card applications using Java and Spring.
  • Participated in Huntington’s agile transformation.
Technologies: Microsoft SQL Server, ASP.NET, C#

Senior Software Engineer

2006 - 2012
Accuscan Instruments, Inc.
  • Led behavioral research application development from conception through deployment.
  • Designed and implemented embedded software in C for Atmel AVR and 8051 series firmware.
  • Reduced costs by consolidating hardware and software designs.
  • Created graphical data acquisition and analysis applications using Win32 (C++) and .NET (C#).
  • Designed PCB layouts for locomotor sensor hardware.
Technologies: Win32, Atmel AVR, .NET, C#

Acceptd

https://getacceptd.com
Acceptd is a SaaS platform for connecting artists and arts organizations. It provides prescreening facilities, recruitment tools, and marketing pipelines for thousands of institutions.
I was Acceptd's first technical hire and over the course of more than six years, I led their platform development team and helped to grow Acceptd into a profitable and influential company.

BehaviorCloud

http://behaviorcloud.com
I developed a web application for conducting behavioral and neuroscientific research in the cloud. BehaviorCloud dynamically spawned Docker containers in AWS to do real-time processing and post experiment analysis. It supports several different hardware and software experiment platforms and features a SPA web client built in React and mobile clients built in React Native.

Languages

JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Java, C#, HTML, HTML5, CSS

Frameworks

Redux, Django, Laravel, ASP.NET, Material UI, React Native, .NET, .NET Core

Libraries/APIs

React, Node.js, REST APIs, Mypy

Paradigms

Scrum, RESTful Development

Platforms

Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Debian Linux, Firefox, Android, Win32, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Amazon EC2

Storage

MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)

Other

Solution Architecture, Google, Atmel AVR, HTML5 Video, TypeORM, Amazon Route 53

Tools

Slack, Git, NGINX, Docker Compose, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Artifactory, GitLab CI/CD

2000 - 2006

Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science and Engineering

The Ohio State University - Columbus, OH, USA

FEBRUARY 2013 - PRESENT

Professional Scrum Developer I (PSD)

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 2012 - PRESENT

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)

Scrum.org

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