Christian Lent
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
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.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 9 years
- MariaDB - 8 years
- React - 3 years
- Redux - 3 years
- Docker - 2 years
- React Native - 2 years
- Node.js - 2 years
- TypeScript - 2 years
Availability
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
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.
Staff Software Engineer
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.
Co-founder
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.
Lead Developer
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%.
Senior Software Consultant (with Cardinal Solutions)
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.
Senior Software Engineer
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.
Experience
Acceptd
https://getacceptd.comI 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.comEducation
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
The Ohio State University - Columbus, OH, USA
Certifications
Professional Scrum Developer I (PSD)
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
Scrum.org
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, REST APIs, Mypy
Tools
Slack, Git, NGINX, Docker Compose, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Artifactory, GitLab CI/CD
Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Java, C#, HTML, HTML5, CSS
Frameworks
Redux, Django, Laravel, ASP.NET, Material UI, React Native, .NET, .NET Core
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
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