Christopher Tramel
About Christopher Tramel
Christopher Tramel is a Senior Software Engineer at SafeGraph, where he has worked since 2020 in Orlando, Florida. He specializes in creating and maintaining AWS infrastructure and oversees a large data pipeline that processes approximately 20 billion new rows daily.
Work at SafeGraph
Christopher Tramel has been employed at SafeGraph as a Senior Software Engineer since 2020. In this role, he creates and maintains AWS infrastructure to support new projects and enhance existing data pipelines. He oversees a significant big data pipeline that processes approximately 20 billion new rows daily, specifically to support the Patterns dataset. Additionally, he acts as the team lead for the Places team, where he sets the vision and architecture for the scalable development of a global-aware points of interest (POI) dataset pipeline. His responsibilities also include interacting with sales, customer support, and product teams to identify product shortcomings and determine future development priorities.
Education and Expertise
Christopher Tramel holds a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Statistics from the University of Central Florida, where he studied from 2008 to 2013. He furthered his education at the Georgia Institute of Technology, earning a Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science from 2014 to 2016. His educational background provides a strong foundation for his expertise in software engineering, data management, and infrastructure development.
Background
Before joining SafeGraph, Christopher Tramel accumulated diverse experience in software engineering and development. He worked at PowerDMS as an Extern for one month in 2013 and later returned as a Senior Software Engineer from 2014 to 2019. He also served as a Web Developer at SpectorSoft from 2013 to 2014 and as a Senior Software Engineer at Olo from 2019 to 2020. Additionally, he worked as a Research Systems Developer at the University of Central Florida from 2011 to 2013.
Achievements
During his career, Christopher Tramel has led significant projects, including the creation, deployment, and maintenance of the Placekey API, which serves as a public API for a new open standard unique identifier for points of interest (POI). He is responsible for maintaining and improving a large-scale geospatial dataset pipeline that spans multiple countries and languages. In his current role, he also plays a key part in onboarding and mentoring new engineers, facilitating their integration into the team.