Space Shuttle Discovery on display in the museum hangar, viewed head-on
A jug labeled BEER mounted as a dispenser on a wood-paneled bar wall under a skylight

Chris Montgomery

Software engineer based in Cleveland, OH. Dog dad. Occasional adventurer.

About Me

I'm a software engineer based in Cleveland, Ohio specializing in high-throughput, event-driven backend systems. I've spent my career building services that process millions of events per minute — the kind of work where latency and correctness both matter.

I care deeply about clean architecture, developer experience, and shipping software that actually holds up. When I'm not writing code, I'm usually out hiking with my dog, catching a live show, or experimenting in the kitchen.

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Senior Software Engineer at DraftKings · since Dec 2023

Road to the Cleveland Marathon

Projects

A few things I've built.

cmontgomery.net

This site — personal portfolio and playground. SSR with Next.js, deployed on AWS Amplify. It has a terminal edition too: try curl --location cmontgomery.net.

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Pixel-art battle in Idle Survivors: armored knights fighting slimes and skeletons

Idle Survivors

Browser-based idle/survivors hybrid game prototype. Auto-combat, progression systems, and an in-run shop. Switch between pixel art and a 3D view with Blender-modeled characters at any time, even mid-run.

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