# Christopher Abedi

> Backend Engineer | API Development, System Performance

Location: Miami, Florida, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/christopherabedi

Clean Code & The Pragmatic Programmer advocate, Backend Engineer, Linux Enthusiast

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ ICF
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
-Planned, organized, and delivered features in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders, translating requirements into scalable solutions while ensuring alignment across teams

-Delivered middleware for Postgres JSON data with NestJS and TypeScript

-Led a critical initiative to audit, declutter, and streamline a large-scale legacy codebase, reducing technical debt and improving overall maintainability

-Documented technical specifics and maintainability analysis for new features

### Software Engineer @ ICF
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Removed 20+ critical, high and moderate security vulnerabilities from legacy TypeScript api by removing 407 extraneous dependencies, cutting install time by 75%

Built out features for an internal Node.js api and NPM package to government specifications for physician Medicare and Medicaid disbursement

### Software Engineer III @ LexisNexis Legal
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote
- Discovered and identified requirement gaps by developing the first A/B test process for teams 
main Kubernetes product

- Enabled non-technical resources the ability to quickly and non intrusively validate a 
production alert notification system by providing a user interface in react using JavaScript, 
MySql and Python

- Increased customer adoption and replacement system functionality by building out features 
and aligning main product to legacy specifications in JavaScript, TypeScript and MySql

### Software Engineer III @ Charter Communications
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Parker, Colorado, United States
- Provide fixes for DHCP server processes in order to maintain functionality of network management systems while upgrading major versions of Cisco Network Registrar products

- Validate physical cable modems to agreed upon specifications and negotiate with cable modem vendors

- Investigate environmental inconsistencies between Development, Integration, and UAT sandboxes and restore network functionality

- Document Installation Guides, Test cases and results, and rollback instructions for Operational teams in order to maintain functional network environments while minimizing potential network outages for whole United States

### Backend JavaScript Engineer @ Charter Communications
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Denver Area
- Resolved production cable modem diagnostics failures by deploying the capability to cache diagnostics data with JavaScript

- Improved network reliability by extracting speedtest processes from a legacy network management
system into a JavaScript Kubernetes microservice architecture

- Built and integrated an automated BDD test framework with CI / CD to verify network diagnostics
tool met product requirements using Cucumber.js, Bash, and Gitlab-CI

- Configured and maintained virtual environments of Charter network infrastructure CentOs 7 systems in order to isolate team development efforts

- Support new cable modem release’s diagnostic and provisioning capabilities by developing code
changes, building artifacts, and documenting installation/rollback guides for network device
management systems

### Software Engineer I @ Vertafore
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Denver Area
- Extended tools to load, sanitize, and reorganize large customer data sets from different competitors’
data stores

- Reduced downtime of deploys from 2 hours to 45 minutes with Python and Azure DevOps
- Optimized ETL Microsoft stored procedures for performance and resource management with
Sp_who2

- Increased maintainability of an ETL application by decoupling front-end and back-end components by
introducing an API middleware layer

- Built out Postman battery test suites verifying API functionality

### Software Developer Internship @ RiskMatch
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greenwich,Ct
- Increased data training set for a machine learning model by 842% by creating a Java web-scraper using
JSoup
- Built a Java CLI tool to interface with MySQL database and create n-ary trees to visualize and compare company structures from similar datasets

### Software Developer @ Target Engineering Group
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Miami, Florida, United States
- Reduced accounting department’s weekly bookkeeping tasks by 13% by creating an iOS application to
record employee expenditures implemented with Swift, PHP, and MS SQL server

- Implemented a beta version of a web app designed to manage active contracts using C# and Azure
SQL


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Florida State University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22