Principal Software Engineer
Simplifying Software Design
As a principal software engineer, I have had the privilege of leading a talented group of developers, guiding them towards excellence and fostering an environment of innovation and collaboration. Throughout my career, I’ve been deeply involved in the development of successful SAAS solutions, leveraging industry-leading technologies to deliver robust and scalable products.
One of the key aspects of my leadership approach is the emphasis on knowledge sharing and continuous learning. I have always encouraged my team to stay abreast of the latest technological advancements and best practices. By organizing regular training sessions and workshops, I’ve helped create a culture where learning is integral to our daily workflow.
In terms of project management, I strive to strike a balance between detailed planning and agile adaptability. This flexibility ensures that our development cycles are both efficient and responsive to client needs. I have successfully led teams through numerous product launches, carefully balancing a timely delivery without compromising on quality.
Under my leadership, we have implemented cutting-edge technologies such as microservices architecture, cloud computing solutions, and advanced data analytics. These technologies have enabled us to enhance the scalability, security, and performance of our SAAS offerings, thus meeting the evolving demands of the industry.
Moreover, I prioritize open communication and teamwork, fostering an environment where every team member feels valued and empowered to contribute. By promoting a culture of mutual respect and collaboration, I have been able to harness diverse perspectives and skills, driving innovation and achieving outstanding results.
Ultimately, my leadership experience as a principal software engineer is defined by a commitment to excellence, a passion for innovation, and a dedication to nurturing talent. These elements have been pivotal in our journey to create impactful SAAS solutions that not only meet but exceed industry standards.
Engineering Excellence: 10+ Years in Software Development
Discover the significant contributions and innovative solutions Christopher Lombardi has brought to software engineering, backed by compelling data and insights.
10+
Years of Proficiency
Christopher Lombardi: Software engineer with 10+ years of expertise.
3+
Products Delivered
Christopher has led the successful inception, deployment, and maintenance of 3 successful Enterprise SAAS solutions, ensuring timely results and reduced maintenance costs.
7+
Developers Mentored
Christopher has guided over seven engineers and cultivated a culture of growth and knowledge exchange for global teams spanning three continents.
50+
Satisfied Clients with Quality Service
Christopher has facilitated the onboarding of over 50 global clients for Enterprise SAAS solutions, ensuring successful implementations and optimal performance. His careful analysis and thoughtful designs prioritize both performance and quality, consistently driving client success.
Principal Software Engineer | University of Pittsburgh
Christopher Lombardi: Skilled software engineer with 10+ years of expertise in developing scalable web services.
Earned a bachelor’s of science in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in May, 2014.
Technical Skills
- Architecture & Patterns: System design, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, monolithic and micro service system design and management, design patterns, performance tuning
- Cloud & DevOps: Azure, Azure Devops CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, Octopus Deploy, Auth0
- Tools & Platforms: RBMS, NoSQL, key-value stores, message brokers, docker, authentication and encryption systems
- Networking & Security: DNS, TCP/IP, network architecture, system security across SDLC
- Leadership & Collaboration: Cross-team alignment, mentoring, technical documentation
- Languages: C#, SQL, MQL, KQL, Powershell, YAML, Terraform, Typescript, Javascript
- Frameworks: .NET Core, Aurelia, React
Accomplishments
As a lead software engineer, I led a team of developers to re-implement a distributed, multi-tenant, cloud-based application from the ground-up.
- Defined best practices, solutions, technologies, team processes to facilitate a consistent, shared understanding for optimizing development on a multi-national team.
- Interviewed, mentored, successfully integrated multiple senior engineers concurrently across two projects and 3 time zones.
- Analyzed product requirements, designed many new solutions, and re-designed legacy solutions to optimize for performance, efficiency, and extensibility with new technologies.
- Aligned the team on key technical requirements: team-wide knowledge sharing practices, unit test quality, test coverage, microservice responsibility integrity, code responsibilities.
As a lead software engineer, I led a team of developers and QA engineers to successfully re-implement critical components of a distributed, multi-tenant, cloud-based solution to reduce the distribution of compute operations by one order of magnitude to improve performance by leveraging a shared cache of instructions to process.
- Influenced design.
- Defined and enforced software best practices with the team’s buy-in and shared understanding.
- Defined testing patterns.
- Mentored both QA and Software Engineers.
As a software engineer I designed, proposed, and led an organization-wide initiative to showcase, share and distribute product technical knowledge after a merger and helped to spread technical knowledge and facilitate communications in-between product development teams.
As a software engineer, I designed and implemented critical components of a distributed, multi-tenant cloud-based ETL tool that processed files sent by users in a configurable way that both reduced hosting costs and maximized file throughput to satisfy clients and budgets.
- Played a critical role in creating, designing, building, deploying, and maintaining the ETL application with 20 concurrent tenants and hundreds of concurrent users to process tens of thousands of files, and several terabytes of data over our first year at launch.
Experience
Confluence Technologies Inc. — Pittsburgh, PA / Remote | 12/05/2015 – Present
- Led architecture and technical direction for a core product area, serving as a liaison between engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.
- Designed system architecture to meet business and service-level objectives across quality metrics including performance, scalability, reliability, availability, extensibility, maintainability, manageability, and security.
- Created and documented architecture diagrams and design decisions for development and leadership visibility.
- Established and enforced development patterns, best practices, and codebase structure across repositories and projects.
- Translated complex system challenges into manageable work breakdowns and technical deliverables.
- Integrated CI pipelines for build, test, and artifact packaging, enabling consistent and automated delivery processes, and enforcing standardized code practices.
- Identified technical risks, system bottlenecks, and architecture trade-offs, factoring in cost, team capacity, and cloud infrastructure utilization.
- Led troubleshooting of difficult-to-replicate bugs and performance issues in distributed systems.
- Designed secure system architectures aligned with SDLC and deployment-stage protections.
- Directed and reviewed technical documentation and solution recommendations.
- Worked with Azure kubernetes, managed cloud services, NoSQL databases, message queues, authentication systems.
- Contributed to infrastructure cost optimization and team structure planning to maximize delivery momentum.
- Provided mentorship and guidance to technical leads and engineers while contributing to development organization strategy.
Problem Solutions LLC – Johnstown, PA | 05/13/2013 – 12/03/2015
- Contributed to software engineering and designs for production environments.
- Contributed to devops and took on contracted deployment responsibilities for key initiatives to facilitate business requirements.
- Provided mentorship and guidance to junior engineers with knowledge sharing sessions including 1-on-1 meetings, lunch ‘n’ learns, and documentation.