Christopher Eckart
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About me
I’m currently living in Seattle, WA and working at Qualtrics as a full-stack software engineer. I graduated in 2022 from Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA. My interests include artificial intelligence, big data, climate tech, and iOS development. I am passionate about using the latest technologies to solve real-world problems.
Experience
Qualtrics, LLC
Software Engineer II
August 2022 - Present
- Spearheaded the development and integration of generative AI features into Text iQ, our core text analytics platform, enabling customers to use their data as LLM context to generate a hierarchical tree of topics with labels and search queries to categorize their data, easing the steep learning curve and lowering costs associated with topic model setup.
- Won “First Place for Innovative Use of Language Models” in company hackathon; later led project proposal and design, coordinated efforts across QE, PM, UX, and engineering, and managed release for early access customers.
- Played a key role in the full-stack development of Text iQ, including a front-end migration from Angular to React, support for multi-level topic hierarchies beyond parent-child, a foundational suite of integration tests, a robust query syntax highlighting algorithm, and a comprehensive consolidation and upgrade effort of dependencies.
- Drove the unification of two distinct text analysis platforms to enable users to seamlessly view, manage, and create topic models across projects within a single, cohesive interface.
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Government & Public Services Consulting Intern
June 2021 - July 2021
- Conducted stakeholder interviews within a large national publications company to understand and assess pain points related to the organization’s current marketing capabilities across all channels.
- Developed a playbook and technology enablement plan outlining both strategic and technical recommendations following a timeline as to how the enterprise could design, implement, and optimize its marketing abilities.
- Met with data scientists, consultants, and managing directors across the firm to hear about the real-world applications of statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in governmental and commercial contexts.
NCR Corporation
Software Engineering Intern
June 2020 - August 2020
- Created customer-facing validation tool to ensure correct web service integration with mobile self-checkout platform (Java); complete with customizable test suite, endpoint analytics, and user/developer documentation.
- Won 3rd place out of more than 300 teams in the company hackathon, acting as lead front-end developer for OCR nutrition facts scanning app (SwiftUI, iOS), personalizing grocery substitutions to shopper’s dietary preferences.
- Presented both projects to executive leadership teams at final intern expo and hackathon finalist showcase.
Raymond James Financial, Inc.
Information Technology Intern
May 2019 - August 2019
- Developed web-app to catalog and search RESTful and SOAP enterprise services across the firm (React).
- Utilized big data software (Splunk) to identify high impact errors in advisor-facing applications and presented solutions to upper-level management and executives, receiving the “Best in Show” award.
Publications
How Climate Movement Actors and News Media Frame Climate Change and Strike: Evidence from Analyzing Twitter and News Media Discourse from 2018 to 2021
Kaiping Chen, Amanda L. Molder, Zening Duan, Shelley Boulianne, Christopher Eckart, Prince Mallari, Diyi Yang
International Journal of Press/Politics, 2022. [pdf]