Christopher Brodski

Full-stack developer with 5 years of experience specializing in backend development and AWS cloud infrastructure. Focused on building scalable systems.

• Email: cbrodski@gmail.com
• GitHub: github.com/Brodski
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christopher-brodski

EDUCATION

• B.S. Computer Science
  • Metropolitan State University of Denver
• B.S. Applied Mathematics
  • University of Colorado Denver
• AWS Certified AI Practitioner
  • Acquired: Sept 2025 [↗]
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
  • Acquired: July 2025 [↗]
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Acquired: May 2025 [↗]
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Acquired: July 2024 [↗]

SKILLS

• Languages
  • Advanced: Java, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js
  • Secondary: Kotlin
• Backend
  • Spring Boot, Apache Sling, REST APIs
• Frontend
  • Client-Side: React, HTML, CSS, Browser Extensions
  • Server-Side Rendering (SSR): Next.js, Java Server Pages (JSP)
  • Dev Tools: Gulp.js, Webpack, Jest, yarn, npm
• Database / Storage
  • S3, MySQL (SQL), MongoDB, Redis
• Cloud Computing (AWS)
  • S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, ElastiCache, Route 53, IAM, CloudWatch
• DevOps
  • Skilled: Docker, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD
  • Experienced: Microservices, Kubernetes, Jenkins
• Linux Networking
  • nslookup, dig, ifconfig, netstat, traceroute, curl, vim, awk, grep

WORK HISTORY

Senior Web Developer, at Ping Identity
Sept 2020 - June 2024

• Summary:
  • Built and maintained Ping Identity's public website (www.pingidentity.com) using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), designing UI components, templates, and backend services for a scalable, content-driven platform.
  • Engineered cloud-native backend solutions using AWS services, extending the platform's capabilities and performance.
• Cloud Infrastructure:
  • Re-architected select endpoints from a monolithic application into AWS as microservices to reduce infrastructure costs and improve scalability, implementing IaC and CI/CD with Terraform and GitLab CI/CD.
  • Reduced database load and improved response times by designing and building a caching layer for user sessions with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis.
  • Containerized applications with Docker for deployment across Adobe and AWS environments, standardizing deployments and streamlining operations.
  • Developed AWS Lambda functions (Node.js) exposed via API Gateway that ran in production without interruption, supporting core business functions.
• Backend:
  • Designed services that used LLMs (via OpenAI's API) to personalize website content, ensuring API efficiency and reliability through batching, caching, and fallbacks, using Java.
  • Built a developer-facing API platform with Swagger/OpenAPI documentation, standardizing endpoints and enabling multiple teams to integrate consistently across products.
  • Rewrote the login flow in Spring Boot (Java), addressing security vulnerabilities and implementing centralized authentication with an external server.
  • Automated large-scale content operations (crawling, bulk edits, validation), reducing manual workload and improving data integrity using MySQL and Java.
  • Frequent use of multithreading and asynchronous workflows with Java (thread pools, futures).
• Frontend:
  • Modernized JSP-based views by replacing legacy vanilla JS/HTML with React and TypeScript, creating modular, reusable UI components that improved maintainability, accelerated development, and supported API-driven interfaces.
  • Enhanced frontend development workflows by configuring CI/CD pipelines, automating testing with Jest, and optimizing builds with Webpack and Gulp.js, reducing deployment time.
  • Implemented asset optimization and performance strategies (cache busting, CDN delivery, preloading, service workers) and ensured web accessibility compliance (WCAG/ADA) to improve site performance and user experience.
• Soft Skills: Mentored a new employee and an intern (later hired full-time), providing technical guidance for onboarding and integration into the organization.

Platform Infrastructure Integration / Automation Engineer, at Charter Communications
Dec 2018 - Oct 2019

• Summary:
  • Part of a DevOps/SRE team focused on automation, infrastructure, and QA across containerized and virtualized environments (Kubernetes, Docker, VMware vSphere).
• Job Duties:
  • Built a Flask/Python proxy service to route requests and retrieve data from MongoDB; developed a React-based frontend interface for visualization and interaction.
  • Wrote a Python-based testing tool for quality assurance on a Kubernetes cluster, using the kubectl CLI and the hypervisor's API.
  • Deployed containerized applications with Docker and Telegraf to collect metrics from Kubernetes clusters for system monitoring.
  • Deployed a scaled-down test environment by modifying Terraform configs and collaborating with project owners to redeploy services for QA.

SIDE PROJECTS

• https://resume.bski.one/projects