Christian Garza
XEVAS System Safety Engineer at Axiom Space
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Garza is a Software Engineer with eight years of experience, currently a Software Engineer II at Wood Mackenzie based in Southern California. He focuses on back-end development, data serialization, and build automation, bringing pragmatic solutions to API and tooling problems. His open-source contributions to the popular PokeAPI involved expanding multi-generation sprite assets, updating build scripts and serializers, and resolving linting and data-consistency issues—showing a knack for shipping reliable data pipelines. He blends enterprise engineering rigor with community-minded open-source work, often improving developer-facing tooling behind the scenes.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at University of HoustonAssociate of Arts - AA, General Studies, Associate of Arts - AA, General Studies at San Jacinto College
Github Skills (12)
api10
pokemon-go10
python10
api-design9
django29
django9
apim9
wp-graphql8
graphql8
wordpress-graphql8
data-structure7
data-structures7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
PokeAPI/pokeapi
Jul 2020 - Nov 2021
The Pokémon API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 14 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to enhancing the Pokémon API by expanding the sprite data available for different Pokémon generations. Their work involved modifying build scripts to incorporate new sprite assets, including dream world, gen-i, gen-ii to gen-vii, and official artwork images. They also addressed linting errors and updated related serializers to handle the expanded sprite data.
pokeapiapimonnodejsgraphql
C-Garza/p2p-react
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:100 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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