Christopher Gant
Louisville
Summary
Senior Software Engineer with experience in dealing with complex data driven applications. Proficient in Go, Python and AWS, I excel in collaboration and project management, leading architecture design reviews and successfully launched new user plans, attracting thousands of new subscriptions.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Splice
06.2021 - 06.2025
- Maintained the subscription service which allowed millions of users to purchase and update their subscriptions.
- Coordinated with the product team to increase revenue by optimizing monetization including taxing domestic and international users, conducted pricing experiments on new and returning users, and increased prices on existing users while maintaining retention.
- Collaborated with engineers and key stakeholders through Architecture Design Reviews to improve the reliability and efficiency of the subscription service.
- Integrated with an external partner to launch a new plan for users which lead to thousands of new users and subscriptions
Software Engineer
El Toro IP Targeting
05.2016 - 05.2021
- Lead the Data team of 4 engineers through projects improving our internal APIs and data models to improve performance and access to the data needed for our customers.
- Designed, improved, and maintained custom ETL pipelines for client data processing using Go concurrency and AWS Lambda and Step Functions to optimize performance and memory usage
- Refactored the Customer Reporting API used for impressions and clicks to use Elasticsearch and improve performance by 90%
- Collaborated with the Product team to launch a new product that would generate new leads based on targeted locations.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY05-2017
Skills
- Go, Python, Scala
- Project Management
- AWS
- Datadog
- BigQuery
- Database Design
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Cassandra
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Expired Feb 2025)
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Splice
06.2021 - 06.2025
Software Engineer
El Toro IP Targeting
05.2016 - 05.2021
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Kentucky