Christopher

Iwaskiw

Software Engineer

Contact:

410-294-6837

christopher.iwaskiw@gmail.com

Personal Site:

chrisiwaskiw.dev

Personal Projects:

github.com/ciwaskiw

skiw.itch.io

Education

University of Maryland,
College Park, MD.
 
B.S. in Computer Science
Class of 2018

Technologies & Skills

Technologies: - Node.js - AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, SQS, SNS, S3, Codepipeline) - Terraform - NGINX - Linux/Bash - ReactJS

Skills: - Oral Communication - Technical Documentation - Solving High-Impact Production Issues - Cloud Development - Unit, Functional, and Smoke Testing - Infrastructure-as-code - Kanban Agile Development

Inquisitive software engineer always looking for new challenges. Experienced cloud developer with NodeJS microservices in AWS.  Keen perception of customer use-cases and familiar with an on-call environment.  Key strengths are communication, creativity, and problem-solving.

Sparkpost, A Messagebird Company (Dec 2019 - Dec 2022)

  • Built services used to send over 3.3 billion email messages per day, up to 250 million messages per hour, with a 99.99% uptime guaranteed by SLA.
  • Solved customer sending issues for the world’s largest brands including Zillow, the New York Times, Pinterest, and Twitter.
  • Worked with a team to develop and maintain a microservice architecture using Node.JS and AWS EC2, ECS, and Lambda.
  • Was a leader for key projects within the team including development of new monitoring infrastructure and API smoke tests.
  • Led several training sessions and documentation initiatives on topics from our core APIs to best standards and practices.
  • Operated in a test-first environment, employing unit, functional, end-to-end, and smoke testing in all of our services.

AECOM (Sep 2019 - Nov 2019)

  • Planned and documented a software Research & Development effort to update the Department of Homeland Security’s network infrastructure.

Reallaer, LLC (Oct 2018 - Apr 2019)

  • Contracted by Reallaer to create a prototype video content management system for the TSA as part of a contract for the Department of Homeland Security.  
  • Written as a React web application with Redux and Bootstrap wrapped as a cross-platform desktop program using Electron.

Wavestrike, LLC - Internships (Jun-Aug 2017/2018)

  • Worked with teams of 4-5 interns to develop prototype full-stack projects in Java/Spring Boot, ReactJS/Redux, Python/Flask, and Node.js.