Christopher Smith

Abilene, TX, United States

Member since September 14, 2016

Christopher is an expert JVM developer with solid experience building with Spring, Groovy, and the JVM ecosystem in general. He has managed the full software lifecycle from requirements to deployment, along with systems administration and networking (CCDP/CCNP). He is a proactive guy who's looking for projects that involve back-end engineering, infrastructure questions, networking, orchestration, and harder functional programming.

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Portfolio

ArtSquare
Spring, Java, Groovy, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Selenium, Geb
Sphere Systems
Java, Linux, Cisco, 802.11, Satellite, MPLS
Abilene Christian University
Linux, C++, Perl, ROOT, ARCNET, SCADA

Experience

Linux, 16 years
Networking, 15 years
Java, 14 years
JPA, 7 years
Spring, 7 years
Groovy, 4 years
Spring Boot, 3 years
Spring Cloud, 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, JVM, Java, Spring, Eclipse/STS, Git

The most amazing...

...machine I've worked on is the PHENIX detector at the RHIC heavy-ion collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Employment

Chief Technology Officer
ArtSquare
2013 - 2016
- Designed and managed the implementation of a cloud-first web application for artists.
- Built and managed the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, story planning, continuous integration, and cloud deployment.
- Mentored junior developers and helped non-technical people understand the development process.
- Developed and maintained a full-stack Selenium test suite for the application using a spec-first BDD process.
- Contributed to open-source Java libraries that were used by GitHub and the Central Repository.
Technologies: Spring, Java, Groovy, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Selenium, Geb
President | Consultant
Sphere Systems
2007 - 2013
- Provided integrated consulting services to a medium-sized business.
- Designed the architecture for a safety-critical SCADA system.
- Helped organizations roll out IPv6 deployment across IPv4-only WAN infrastructure.
- Advised on the interactions between networking choices and software communications models and made recommendations on protocol design.
- Created custom VM appliances and network configurations to solve challenging network situations (poor/slow satellite connections, remote work sites, and changing fleet configurations).
Technologies: Java, Linux, Cisco, 802.11, Satellite, MPLS
Physics Research Assistant
Abilene Christian University
2003 - 2005
- Wrote control interfaces for power and temperature management for electronics on the PHENIX high-energy physics experiment.
- Wrote monitoring and analysis software for environmental sensors at PHENIX.
- Set up a thin-client network and servers for training at ACU.
- Upgraded control hardware and layout for power electronics at PHENIX.
- Worked with the ROOT data-analysis package to process data from the PHENIX experiment.
Technologies: Linux, C++, Perl, ROOT, ARCNET, SCADA

Experience

ArtSquare (Startup) (Development)
https://www.artsquare.com
A platform for artists in the internet age, providing business information and tools for making a successful career in art. This provides matchmaking services for professional print-quality digitization and management of high-quality digital image assets (200MB+).
Blitline Java SDK (Development)
https://github.com/chrylis/blitline-java-client
A client SDK for Blitline, a cloud image manipulation service. Provides a job builder as well as handlers for postback notifications.

Skills

Languages
Java, Ruby, HTML5, HTML, JavaScript, Groovy, C, XML, SQL, ECMAScript (ES6)
Frameworks
Spring Boot, Spring, Spock, JUnit, GEB, Spring MVC, Spring Integration, Hibernate ORM, Hibernate, Bootstrap, Selenium, JPA, Apache Spark, Jasmine, Spring Security, Mockito
Paradigms
Object-oriented Design (OOD), Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Behavior-driven Development (BDD), REST, Agile, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration (CI), Test-driven Development (TDD), Functional Programming, Aspect-oriented Programming, Promise
Platforms
Linux, Arch Linux, Unix, Mac OS, Apache Kafka, Bluemix, Arduino, AVR (8-bit MCU), Solaris
Libraries/APIs
JSR 310, ImageMagick, jQuery
Tools
Apache Maven, Maven, Spring Tool Suite (STS), Groovy Grails Tool Suite, Eclipse IDE, Jenkins, Karma, Babel
Storage
JSON, IBM BlueMix, Redis, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Spring Data
Other
Network Protocols, Networking, Networks, Cisco, QA Automation, Routing, Undertow, mbed, CloudFoundry, Telecommunication, Spring Cloud

Education

Certification in Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Cisco Systems - n/a
2009 - 2009
Certification in Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
Cisco Systems - n/a
2007 - 2007
Incomplete Ph.D. in Computer Science
Texas Tech University - Abilene, TX, USA
2006 - 2007
Bachelor of Science in Physics
Abilene Christian University - Abilene, TX, USA
2002 - 2007
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science
Abilene Christian University - Abilene, TX, USA
2002 - 2006

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