# Chris Black

> Sr. Software Engineer at Ford Pro Charging

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chrisblack

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Ford Pro
Jan 2023 – Present
Engineering solutions for the Ford Pro Charging charge management system.

Worked as development lead for a complete overhaul of the charge management system's reporting functionality. Helped engineer a new reporting system using NestJS, MongoDB, and Apache Kafka, utilizing the CQRS and event sourcing design patterns, to provide insights quickly and accurately.

### Senior Software Engineer @ All Traffic Solutions
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Led a team of engineers working on a customer-facing product using Node.js and Angular, driving feature design, documenting comprehensive requirements, executing code reviews, and managing collaborative processes. Developed and maintained a Python & SQL Server backend, processing millions of real-time streaming messages daily via Apache Kafka. 

Other projects and examples of work include:
Designing and engineering the backend of a parking availability mobile app, utilizing Node.js, Python, and SQL Server, and leveraging AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway.

Maintaining a Node.js/Typescript device communication server,  ensuring continuous functionality.

Orchestrating a migration of a mission-critical database while minimizing downtime and disruption utilizing Azure Data Factory.

### Software Developer @ All Traffic Solutions
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
Working in various roles along the whole technology stack, mostly with the back-end business logic (Python) and databases (SQL), on a team working on developing a next generation product, while supporting the current generation product as well. 

Examples of work include: writing Kafka producers and consumers, external API integrations (ETL), data migration from the old system to the new, managing all DDL changes for multiple SQL Server databases, leading an effort to research and migrate millions of device and other logs from SQL Server to CockroachDb, monitoring database usage, design and upkeep of 100+ customer facing report files, and providing in-depth documentation and UI mock-ups to an external UI team based in India.

Some languages and technologies utilized:
Python, SQL Server, MySQL, CockroachDb, Kafka, Jenkins, Java, JasperReports, Jira, Confluence


## Education
### B.S. Applied Information Technology in Database and Programming
George Mason University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christophertblack

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Last updated: 2026-03-23