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Christopher Salam

Christopher Salam

Software Engineer or Engineering Manager Roles
Berkeley, California
(760) 953-2322
christophersalam@gmail.com
https://christophersalam.com
English, Spanish

Background

About

About

Berkeley, CA.

Employed in the Bay Area at Shepherd Insurance as Software Engineer. Open to product/platform or engineering manager roles.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Software Engineer, Shepherd Insurance

    August 2025 - Present

  • Sr. Software Engineer, State Affairs

    March 2025 - July 2025

    Data Platform & FullStack

    • Maintained & piloted python data platform for gov web crawling apps: Crawl4AI, ModAL, BSoup. Reduced downtime by 30%

    • Maintained frontend TS/NodeJS/NextJS/GraphQL/React app for consumer/admin: addressing pipeline backfill with direct entry

    • Implemented site reliability & CI/CD changes: load balancing, optimization & scaling: AWS, Cloudflare, Dokku, made prod mirror site

  • Sr. Software Engineer (Team Lead), Byte

    March 2023 - January 2025

    Integrations - Backend, DevOps, Infrastructure

    • Leadership: Agile development: kanban standup, roadmap, calibration, retro, jira, confluence

    • Led team 3 engineers driving backend, infra, & cloud platform features: Azure, TS/NodeJS, GraphQL, NextJS, Integrations

    • Migrated monolith auth & payment to serverless for scalability, deprecation of legacy system, presigned file uploads & spoofing

    • Developed multistep queued file transfer processes for storage migration reducing storage costs by 99.6% (Salesforce → Azure)

  • Sr. Software Engineer, Twitter

    May, 2020 - November 20222 year 8 months

    Customer Experience Applications Team. (React/NodeJS/Typescript, Java, Scala)

    • Twitter acquired CrossInstall in 2020. Maintained repos for CrossInstall while learning new role

    • Migrated VPN auth and related features for React / NodeJS / GraphQL / Java / Scala apps in ads ecosystem, enabling 14 websites

    • Optimized machine learning ETL pipeline, enhancing performance & reducing cloud costs using spot instances by 20%

  • Sr. Software Engineer, CrossInstall

    Jun, 2017 - May, 20202 years 11 months

    Creatives Team. Fullstack Data analytics and interaction metrics from playable advertisements (Javascript, Python)

    • Developed tools & workflows solving ad versioning & builds for ads customers reducing build times from 1 day to 15 minutes

    • Managed AWS infrastructure (Route53, ELB, S3, EC2) for ads, sites for B2C & B2B customers, providing 100% availability

  • Software Engineer, Ziploop

    Jan, 2016 - Jun, 20171 year 7 months

    Startup. Retail Loyalty. (Javascript, Cordova Android/iOS, AWS)

    • Led Shopify API integration, mobile bridge and backend system development for OCR technology platform MEAN / NodeJs

  • Software Engineer, Freelance

    Jul, 2014 - Dec, 20151 year 5 months

    Various e-commerce clients (Ruby, Javascript, Python)

  • Chemical Engineer, RCM International

    Apr, 2013 - Oct, 20141 year 5 months

    Biogas Production, Filtration

  • Petroleum Engineer, Department of Conservation

    Dec, 2011 - Aug, 20131 year 8 months

Skills

Skills

  • Full Stack
    TypescriptPythonNodeExpressReact iOS - SwiftEmberBackbone SEOCSSSeleniumNightmareReactTestingLibraryRegExp
  • Database & Site Reliability
    AzureAWSScalaMEAN/MERN GCPRoute 53Git SubtreeSplunkNodePythonRuby/RailsSQLGraphQLThrift
  • Bridge Technologies & APIs
    Cordova/PhonegapAWS EC2CrosswalkElectronYoutube API AWS ELB - Elastic Load BalancerAWS LambdaGmail APIReact Native
  • Packages, Build Systems, & Testing
    yarnnpmGulpGruntBower LinuxHomebrewjspmXcodeSplunk Phabricator Arc
Education

Education

  • Software Engineering, JavaScript Immersive, Telegraph Academy

    Jun, 2015 - Sep, 2015

  • Biological Systems Engineering, Master's, University of California Davis

    Sep, 2009 - Jan, 2011

  • Environmental Engineering, Bachelor's, University of California Riverside

    Sep, 2003 - Jun, 2007

Publications

Publications

  • Investigation of Poultry Waste for Anaerobic Digestion , University of California Davis

    Published on: Jan 14, 2011

    Investigation of Turkey Waste for Mesophilic and Thermophilic Digestion.

  • Zero Waste Biodiesel , Environmental Protection Agency

    Published on: Aug 31, 2007

    Zero Waste Biodiesel tested organic wastes with biodiesel waste to create fuel pellets for use in cold climates.

  • Honorable Mention, N.S.F. (National Science Foundation)

    Awarded on: Nov 01, 2008

Volunteer Work

About Me

  • Board Member for Spokeland

    Jan, 2012 - Present

    Nonprofit Co-op, we teach and empower people to repair their own bicycles.

  • During college, I owned a party bus and I worked as a freelance mechanic while living at the Domes.