# Chris Wendt

> Full stack software engineer, dev tools enthusiast, and distributed systems wrangler.

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

Dev tools and distributed systems software engineer

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Sourcegraph
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Acquihired from CodeWing
- Rearchitected symbol search, went from broken to fast for one of the biggest customers
- Improved out-of-the-box code nav quality so much that we got positive user feedback

### Software Engineer @ CodeBook
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Solo project https://codebook.page Beautifully rendered programming books and posts - publish with `git push`

### Software Engineer @ CodeWing
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Solo project https://codewing.dev/ Next level code navigation for GitHub.

### Software Engineer @ Sourcegraph
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Prototyped LSIF support, researched how other companies provide code intelligence, guided scaling discussions, built and worked on LSIF indexers for Java, C++, OCaml, Dart
- Improved fuzzy code intelligence, which had a "material" impact on conversations with customers
- Improved symbol search performance from O(n) to O(1) using SQLite (Go)
- Revived and documented browser-based test suite
- Responded and fixed disk space issues and accidental internal DDOS while on-call
- Added Sourcegraph extensions to the Sourcegraph browser extension (TypeScript)
- Dockerized several language servers and implemented push-button language server setup (Docker, Go)

### Software Engineer @ ThoughtSpot
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto
- Optimized 6 hour browser-based test suite to run ~3x faster on ~70% fewer machines
- Added UI components and interfaced with backend APIs (TypeScript, Angular)
- Eliminated certain errors caused by differences between developer environments by locking dependencies
- Contributed feature PRs to upstream open source repos: jasmine, grunt-shell-spawn, grunt-protractor-runner
- Prevented any further browser console errors from creeping into the app and implemented a framework for gradually fixing existing bugs that cause known console errors

### Elasticsearch Engineer @ GitHub
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA
- Single-handedly built commit search and half of wiki search (Ruby, Elasticsearch)
- Provided guidance to fellow engineers for adding search functionality to their features
- Fielded support tickets, addressed bug reports, explained search query behavior
- Researched the effects of query and index changes on performance and relevance

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Redmond, WA
- Built a large-scale data pipeline from scratch with Azure instances, Service Bus, and Table Storage
- Co-maintained a multi-terabyte Elasticsearch cluster (Azure, Elasticsearch)
- Set up centralized metrics to monitor pipeline health (StatsD, Graphite, C#)
- Enabled additional graphical features for internal charting web app (JavaScript)

### Software Developer In Test Intern @ Qualcomm
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Wrote test cases from 0% to 94% coverage, emphasis on maintainability, 6,000+ lines of code (Perl, JSON)
Presented test cases to my team, now part of code integration
Analyzed performance of new scheduling system, “instrumental” in coworker’s presentation to VP (D3.js)
Gained skills in working efficiently, presentation, and large distributed systems

### Quality Assurance Engineer @ Microsemi
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Team-based development of object-code protection/anti-tamper software (Scrum)
Debugged build infrastructure, updated old unit tests (Jenkins, Subversion, JUnit)
Committed hundreds of lines, refactored fragile Bugzilla query code (Java, C, Python, Ant scripts)
Gained problem detecting, reporting, communicating, and solving skills

### Graphics Designer @ The Network Operations Company (TNOC)
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Designed website mockups, ads, and company graphics (GIMP)
Maintained website content, added banners, managed ad rotation (Drupal, HTML, CSS)


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Purdue University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chrismwendt
- Website: https://chrismwendt.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-23