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Name: Chris

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👋 Chris Pollard

I'm a Software Engineer with a focus on pragmatically solving problems using modern technologies. I have 9 years of experience in the industry, and I enjoy tackling complex challenges and adapting to evolving technical and business requirements.

✨ Core Skills

💻 Programming Languages: Python, Typescript, JavaScript
🚀 Backend Frameworks: Django, FastAPI, Node.js
🗄️ Databases: SQL (Postgres), NoSQL (DynamoDB)
⚡ Frontend Frameworks: React.js
☁️ Cloud Technologies: AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, etc)
🚀 CI/CD: Github Actions
🐳 Containerization: Docker
🧪 Testing: PyTest, Unittest, Cypress

💼 Fun Projects

Billing Portal for Startup X - Led the development of a billing portal for a startup, collaborating with the team to define project scope, requirements, and deliverables. Implemented secure payment processing and integrated with third-party APIs for payouts and subscription management.
Secure Telemedicine Scheduling Application for Healthcare Institution Y - Designed and developed a robust system to secure patient data, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. Implemented role-based access control and encryption mechanisms to safeguard sensitive information.
Migration of Government Website Z - Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop app components, plan the migration process, and ensure a smooth transition.

🏆 Certifications

🥇 AWS Certified Developer - Associate (March 2017 - March 2026)
🥇 AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (June 2018 - Sept 2024)

📞 Contact

Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn.

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Chris's Projects

alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-python

The Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Python helps you get a skill up and running quickly, letting you focus on skill logic instead of boilerplate code.

apd-core

Awesome Public Datasets Core

aquent-crud-app

Sample CRUD app for interviewing and onboarding

broken-wagtail-copy-demo

certbot

Certbot, previously the Let's Encrypt Client, is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt, and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.

coding-interview-university

A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer.

content-gitops

cspollar

cspollar.github.io

Fancy Website

django-allauth

Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication.

django-auditlog

A Django app that keeps a log of changes made to an object.

django-ckeditor

Django admin CKEditor integration.

django-easy-audit

Yet another Django audit log app, hopefully the simplest one.

django-mysql-rds

A Django db backend for connecting to RDS MySQL instances using SSL db auth tokens

django-python3-ldap

Django LDAP user authentication backend for Python 3.

django-s3direct

Add direct uploads to S3 with a progress bar to file input fields. Perfect for Heroku.

django-two-factor-auth

Complete Two-Factor Authentication for Django providing the easiest integration into most Django projects.

dynamodb-action

📦 GitHub Action - DynamoDB Local GitHub Action

ecs-demo-php-simple-app

A simple PHP sample application http://aws.amazon.com/ecs

elasticsearch-dsl-py

High level Python client for Elasticsearch

flask-ask

Alexa Skills Kit for Python

lambda-packages

Various popular python libraries, pre-compiled to be compatible with AWS Lambda

loggly-jslogger

Client-side (browser) logger to use with Loggly v2

nodejs-storage

Node.js client for Google Cloud Storage: unified object storage for developers and enterprises, from live data serving to data analytics/ML to data archiving.