Chris Pfohl

  • 🇺🇸 English native
  • 🇵🇱 Polish fluent

Professional Experience

  • Apsis Labs Software Engineer

    Remote - HQ in Seattle, WA
    Software Engineer and client manager for small consultancy.
    • Maintained client relationships. Primary point of contact for our largest client.
    • Delegated tasks and communicated requirements to team members.
    • Delivered 7 third-party integrations including 2 that required formal validations.
    • Designed a robust system for syncing third-party data that maintained database availaibility, and optimized for cost and reliability.
    • Conducted code reviews focusing on maintainability and scalability.
    • Refactored code to accelerate future development and enhance code robustness.
    • Introduced automated testing for a mission-critical backend system.
    • Created tooling to enforce best practices, streamline development, and accelerate onboarding.
    • ruby
    • rails
    • rspec
    • typescript
    • react
    • c#
    • aws
    • azure
    • svelte
    • css
    • next-js
    • docker
    • docker-compose

  • Parking Boss Software Engineer

    Remote - HQ in Seattle, WA
    First technical hire at Parking Boss, a SAAS for managing community parking needs.
    • Monitored, developed, and maintained a high-performance API serving millions of requests daily, ensuring scalability and security in a service-oriented environment.
    • Introduced Svelte and modern UI tooling, totally changing the way UIs were built at Parking Boss.
    • Created a tool that converted design tool artifacts to geoJSON. 3 designers use this full time now.
    • Implemented complex, technical algorithms. Offloaded difficult work from CTO.
    • Promoted to Director of Engineering in March 2020.
    • Hired new technical staff.
    • c#
    • .net
    • azure
    • sql
    • sql-server
    • typescript
    • svelte
    • mapbox
    • geojson
    • osm

  • Apsis Labs Software Engineer

    Remote - HQ in Seattle, WA
    Full stack software engineer for small consultancy specializing in highly regulated industries.
    • Gathered requirements for our clients. Helped clients align their requirements with their needs.
    • Secured web applications. Ensured regulatory (e.g. HIPAA) compliance as needed.
    • Seamlessly integrated with diverse teams. Experienced varied development methodologies.
    • Screened and interviewed new potential hires.
    • ruby
    • rails
    • rspec
    • typescript
    • react
    • react-native
    • c#
    • xamarin
    • mono-game
    • html
    • scss
    • css
    • php
    • wordpress
    • kotlin
    • java
    • spring-framework

  • Rollbar Support Engineer

    Remote - HQ in San Francisco, CA
    Solo support engineer for error monitoring tool with thousands of customers.
    • Responded to most support requests within 15 minutes during business hours.
    • Resolved customer errors across unfamiliar stacks using only Rollbar traces - no code.
    • Developed support tooling and response templates to speed up response times.
    • python
    • pyramid
    • help-scout

  • Breuer & Co. Programmer/Analyst

    Remote and Wakefield, MA
    Software and Database engineer for Veracross, and Valetude. Internal tools developer.
    • Developed custom support application still used daily by more than 300 people, mostly customers.
    • Cut human effort for database migrations 30x. This was a self-initiated project.
    • Empowered team to start new projects instantly with a starter for a branded, secured web app.
    • Screened and interviewed new potential technical hires.
    • Mentored junior team members. Provided technical review and professional guidance.
    • c#
    • sql-server
    • .net
    • dapper
    • nancy
    • html
    • less
    • css
    • ruby
    • rails
    • backbone.js
    • d3.js
    • ractivejs

  • Raytheon BBN Technologies Associate Scientist

    Cambridge, MA
    Research engineer on a leading Natural Language Processing research team.
    • Secured further funding by implementing genre detection system that boosted evaluation scores.
    • Implemented an SVM based coreference resolution system that achieved state-of-the-art accuracy.
    • Prepared training data from extremely large Wikipedia dumps on an 800 machine cluster.
    • c++
    • python
    • bash
    • perl
    • svmlight

  • Gordon College Dept. of Mathematics Research Assistant

    Wenham, MA
    Programmer for team studying on Stochastic Processing Networks (SPNs).
    • Implemented novel numerical approaches for finding optimal policies for SPNs.
    • Supported non-programmer mathematicians. Evaluated their ideas for computational feasibility.
    • Published code and documentation. Available on the program website: QNet Approximator.
    • c++
    • matlab
    • python
    • cplex
    • glpk

Education

  • Gordon College

    Wenham, MA
    1. Bachelor of Science Computer Science & Biblical Studies GPA 3.94
      • Summa Cum Laude
      • President's List (every semester)
      • AJ Gordon Scholar (received by 26/400 students in my cohort)
      • Luke A. and Mary Moor Wood Memorial Scholarship