# Chris Marshall — Software Engineer

Chris Marshall is a software engineer from Glasgow, Scotland. He works in TypeScript, Node.js and
PostgreSQL on REST APIs, real-time event-driven services and Docker-containerised systems, and is
comfortable owning a service end to end: schema design, API implementation, testing and deployment.

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/OPTIC7409
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-marshall-03136a366
- Studio: https://marshal.studio
- Email: 7chrismarshall57@gmail.com

## Routes

- [Chris Marshall — Software Engineer](https://chrismarshall.xyz/) - Portfolio and project index.

## Experience

- Software Engineer, Resolvo Development (Mar 2024 - Mar 2026, remote). Delivered 40+ client applications
  end to end in PHP, React and TypeScript; ran 3-5 Proxmox servers at ~97% uptime; GitHub Actions CI/CD.
- Work Experience, Bathgate Academy (Aug 2024 - Jun 2025). Supported an S3 Computing class.
- Head of Software, Realm Bot (May 2022 - Feb 2023, contract). Node.js and TypeScript against Xbox/Microsoft APIs.
- BSc (Hons) Computing Science, Glasgow Caledonian University (Sep 2025 - Sep 2029). Year 2, GPA 4.0.
- Founder, Marshal Studio. Design and development for funded startups, fixed scope and fixed finish dates.

## Projects

- FlowForge - Distributed workflow engine in Go with a database-backed lease-and-heartbeat crash-recovery
  system, Postgres durable state and Redis Streams task delivery.
- Sentinel Fraud Engine - Event-driven fraud scoring on Kafka with consumer-group scaling, sub-second
  latency, and a JWT/RBAC gated Next.js analyst dashboard.
- ToolMarket - Marketplace backend API in Express and TypeScript with idempotent Stripe Connect webhooks,
  split payments and automated retries, validated against OpenAPI.
- ImGuiStudio - A visual feedback loop for AI agents building real Dear ImGui interfaces in C++:
  compiles to WebAssembly, renders via WebGL2, and exports back to a native CMake + GLFW project.
- olcli - A Claude Code-style AI assistant CLI for Ollama, running models locally from the terminal.

## Stack

TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Python, SQL, C++, Java, C#. Node.js, Express, REST, WebSocket messaging over
Redis Streams, gRPC, OpenAPI. PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, MySQL, SQLite, Prisma. Docker, Linux,
GitHub Actions, Git, GCP. JWT and OAuth 2.0, RBAC, Stripe, Jest.