Chris Dzombak

… has too many hobbies.

An Introduction —

Hi there. I'm Chris.

👋🏻 During the day I’m a software developer at May Mobility. I’ve worked recently at an array of cybersecurity companies, and before that, from 2013–2017, at The New York Times. I graduated from the University of Michigan in 2012 with a degree in Computer Science Engineering.

I enjoy cycling & mountain biking, photography, hiking & backpacking, birding, and generally spending time in nature. Aside from software engineering, nerdy hobbies include electronics, 3D printing, and geeking about weather, coffee, and theatre.

This is my website. Please have a look around.

This is me in a park near the Huron River in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Getting Good Results from Claude Code: Writing Good Prompts

Key to getting good results from Claude Code (and similar LLM programming tools) is writing good prompts. This is one area where your own programming expertise comes into play; you need to use it to provide guidance to the LLM and nudge it in the right direction. Good prompts are …

Give your LLM Coding Tools Their Own Tools

Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows LLMs to call "tools" that can do anything: interact with your filesystem, search the Web, hit an external API, or even help guide the LLM through a structured problem-solving process. A single MCP server provides one or more tools; for example, a research …

Getting Good Results from Claude Code

I've been experimenting with LLM programming agents over the past few months. Claude Code has become my favorite. It is not without issues, but it's allowed me to write ~12 programs/projects in relatively little time, and I feel I would not have been able to …

Navigating and Rewriting Legacy Systems

As I'm navigating this job search process, I've been asked several variants of the questions, "how do you work with a legacy or poorly-documented codebase? how would you rewrite one?" I figure this answer might be useful for others.

GitHub: @cdzombak

My GitHub profile contains all the open-source software I've built or contributed to, going back well over a decade.

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