Chris Sells
Principal Consultant at Sells Brothers Inc
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Sells is a principal consultant based in Portland, Oregon, with a 30+ year track record of building developer tools, frameworks, and ecosystems that move platforms and developer communities. He has driven product and engineering efforts at Google (led Flutter’s end-to-end developer experience, shipped 13 major releases, doubled supported platforms and integrated Firebase), Meta and Sourcegraph (shipping a v1-quality AI coding assistant and scaling product teams). Chris blends hands-on engineering across C/C++, Java/Kotlin, C#/.NET, JavaScript and Dart with deep product strategy and people leadership, and he actively contributes to open source — notably adding Dart support to the widely used curlconverter project. An experienced speaker and author of 12 books, he brings an uncommon mix of technical authorship, strategic product leadership and a MENSA-level curiosity to developer-centered product design.
12 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (8)
dart10
curl10
testing9
javascript9
javascripts9
api-design8
flutter6
sprite6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
curlconverter/curlconverter
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
Transpile curl commands into Python, JavaScript and 27 other languages
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the addition of Dart language support to the curlconverter project. Their work involved creating Dart code generation functionality, including support for DELETE requests, basic authentication, and complex URL parameters. They also implemented and refactored existing code, including the addition of test fixtures and modifications to the utility functions. The user's contributions enhanced the project's capabilities by expanding its language support to include Dart.
pythonparsertextlintmatlabcurl-commands
csells/dart_json_fun
May 2019 - Feb 2022
Fun with non-trivial JSON serialization/deserialization in Dart
Contributions:9 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
json-serializationdeserializationdart2dartserialization
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