Hi, I'm Chris.

Software Engineer, located in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦

About Me

I am currently a Sr. Software Engineer at sherpa° where we make crossing borders and travelling around the world easier. I have worked in a variety of positions from big tech to consulting to a start up (where I am now). I have become passionate about building high-impact products that help people but are also scaleable, maintainable and extendable. I aspire to build and lead a team of engineers to motivate and enable them to do their best work.

Some things I currently believe in

• All people want to do great things, and we should enable them to do so 🛠️
• Rising tides lift all ships 🚢
• Ask questions, often 🤔

What I like doing these days

• Making and drinking good coffee ☕️
• Gravel and Road Cycling 🚴‍♂️
• Snowboarding 🏂
• Whisk(e)y 🥃
• Cooking, and eating 🥘
• Comedy 🎭
• Weight Lifting 🏋️

Some things I have done in the past

At sherpa°, I work on the fullfillment and automation team, where we have scaled a system from hundreds to tens of thousands of monthly orders delivered on time to customers using TypeScript, Node.js and various GCP products. While at Konrad Group, I built a cheque fraud analysis system for a client using Node.js that ingested millions of records per month, all supported by a dockerized OpenShift Container Platform infrastructure. When I worked at Microsoft, I worked on a system that kept millions of customers' payment instruments updated for fast and easy use.

For more details on my work history, check out my resume.

Where to find me online

• LinkedIn: /in/christopherbmcdonald
• GitHub: /christopherbmcdonald