Christopher Whitten

Christopher Whitten

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ABOUT ME
Director of Engineering at Microsoft
Director of Engineering at Microsoft

I lead multiple engineering teams across the USA and China contributing to some of Microsoft's most strategic business investments. I can help you organize and run your organization, setting it up for business success within your operating constraints.

English
Pacific Time (US & Canada) (-07:00)
Joined January 2017
EXPERTISE
6 years experience | 3 endorsements
I've built and shipped multiple complex real-time B2B applications and performant web services on the Node.js runtime.
I've built and shipped multiple complex real-time B2B applications and performant web services on the Node.js runtime.
6 years experience | 2 endorsements
Tens of thousands of lines of quality code!
Tens of thousands of lines of quality code!
4 years experience
Scaled-out, fully-utilized, intelligent reverse proxies and load balancing. I'm an nginx.conf speaker.
Scaled-out, fully-utilized, intelligent reverse proxies and load balancing. I'm an nginx.conf speaker.
3 years experience | 2 endorsements
Do you know what happens when your WiredTiger cache runs out of memory? I do. Do you know how many commands you can replay from MongoD...
Do you know what happens when your WiredTiger cache runs out of memory? I do. Do you know how many commands you can replay from MongoDB's write-log? do.
4 years experience
I'm a RedisConf speaker and have used this data structure server in many different ways. I've build 32 node Redis clusters processing ...
I'm a RedisConf speaker and have used this data structure server in many different ways. I've build 32 node Redis clusters processing billions of commands across multiple data-centers.
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3 years experience
My primary use of ElasticSearch was daily collection and indexing of hundreds of thousands of pieces of web content, ending up around 2TB...
My primary use of ElasticSearch was daily collection and indexing of hundreds of thousands of pieces of web content, ending up around 2TB of data served up in different <10ms queries and aggregations.
5 years experience
I've set up multiple application environments (dev, test, prod) using Docker and Vagrant with other ancillary tools like Ansible and Fabr...
I've set up multiple application environments (dev, test, prod) using Docker and Vagrant with other ancillary tools like Ansible and Fabric. I can help you set up the tooling to deploy your application to production in a repeatable and easy-to-understand way.

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(3 reviews)
Removed User
Removed User
January 2017
Christopher was great! Very knowledgeable and talked me through all my questions and expounded where necessary. A short and informative session.
Tashi Sherpa
Tashi Sherpa
January 2017
Christopher helped me connect the dots with my app. He is extremely knowledgeable about Javascript, MongoDB, NodeJS and Express. He is an excellent problem solver. Highly recommended! I look forward to learning from him again.