# Christian Connelly

> Software Engineer at Prism Data / Petal

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/christianconnelly

I’m a Software Engineer with 4 years experience designing and building products at rapidly growing, fast paced companies. I have proven experience leading successful technical projects across the stack, and acting as a mentor to others in the process.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Prism Data
Jan 2021 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Petal
Jan 2021 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Drift
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Led migration of mission critical Elixir clusters maintaining over 1.75 million concurrent Websocket connections from EC2 to Kubernetes, reducing downtime, increasing deploy confidence, observability, and cluster flexibility, while achieving cost savings 

Led implementation of Drift Live View in Java using AWS Kinesis and Elasticsearch to allow fast and flexible viewing and querying of customers’ current site visitors 

Implemented new user presence architecture across frontend and backend, leading to over $1 million a year in infrastructure cost savings and improved reliability 

Set frontend standards for consuming Websocket events in React apps, including building modules to hide complex logic and allow safe and easy implementation of real time UI features 

Led frontend development and consulted on backend architecture for Drift Prospector product launch 

Built load testing and performance monitoring infrastructure and processes using K6 load testing utility, Argo workflows and Prometheus Pushgateway

### Software Engineer @ Drift
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Boston Ma

### Software Engineer II @ Social Tables
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
Collaborated on Node.js backend for white label venue search platform including data ingestion with AWS Lambdas and search functionality using GraphQL and Elasticsearch 

Led team of three to build MVP of WYSIWYG editor in ReasonML for search engine content to allow Social Tables to crowd source data collection from customers and increase search engine content

Implemented features of a white label search experience including nearby attractions (using Google Places API) and the venue shopping cart 

Collaborated in a small team to quickly build an embeddable Request For Proposal (RFP) product for a potential customer.

### Associate Software Engineer @ Social Tables
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Washington D.C. Metro Area

### Software Engineering Intern @ Imprivata
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Lexington Ma

### Grader: Programming Methodology @ University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Amherst Ma

### Grader: Intro CS @ University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Amherst Ma


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christianconnelly
- Website: https://ctcon.me

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Last updated: 2026-03-20