Senior Cyber-security Software Engineer

With more than 10 years of software development experience, Chris has developed a strong foundation in cyber-security, web development, machine learning, and cryptocurrency/blockchain. His background in Astronomy and Astrophysics (H. BSc and MSc) has provided him with strong analytical, mathematical, programming, and communication skills. In the cyber-security domain, he has spent four years mastering Golang, PostgreSQL, Grafana, and GitHub Actions. At Arctic Wolf, he was a team lead for the past two years, managing five developers, guiding the team on a modularization project of their end-point Agent, and managing the biannual release cycle of software. His back-end web development experience spans five years, working with Node.js/PHP/Golang, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Docker/Docker-Compose. He also has more than a decade of experience in scientific programming, using FORTRAN, C/C++, Python and Bash. Proud of work including the parallelization of the SWIFT numerical integrator, a ML document classifier for OCR text, contributions to the Bitcoin code base, and an entry in the 2016 Halite AI Challenge where he ranked in the top 3%. His ML portfolio is available at huggingface.co/spaces/ccapo/portfolio. Outside of his professional career, he is building a high-altitude balloon equipped with a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino, and enjoys crafting rogue-like video games. More work can be seen at github.com/ccapo.