Chris Bolin
Director, Data Science
Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolChris Bolin is Director of Data Science at DuckDuckGo, based in Colorado, bringing 11 years of engineering and data science experience. He blends hands‑on full‑stack development with leadership—from VP of Engineering at Formidable to current privacy‑focused data science—while contributing to notable open‑source projects like Formidable's Victory and react‑fast‑compare. His contributions center on React/React Native data‑visualization, demo application modernization, testing, and robust refactors that improve developer experience. Trained at MIT (SM in Computational Engineering) and an early LabVIEW Architect, he pairs rigorous quantitative modeling with pragmatic product delivery. He also founded an offline‑only magazine, The Disconnect, underscoring a creative interest in offline experiences and thoughtful communication.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
SM, Computational Engineering, SM, Computational Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS, Engineering, BS, Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Github Skills (23)
data-visualizations10
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react-components10
react-native10
react-js10
testing10
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data-visualisation10
reactjs-components10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cwise89/react-detect-offline
Jul 2017 - Feb 2021
Offline and Online components for React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 91 commits, 25 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on building and improving React components for detecting online/offline status. They added new components, like `Detector`, and integrated them into a demo application. The user also refactored the code, updated tests, and modified the build process. Further, they added the ability to use custom polling configurations to detect online and offline status more accurately.
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FormidableLabs/react-fast-compare
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
fastest deep equal comparison for React
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 37 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to enhancing the `react-fast-compare` library, which focuses on deep comparison for React applications. They implemented new tests, including React-specific tests to ensure the library's correct behavior with React elements. Additionally, the user addressed circular reference handling within the library and improved the codebase with DOM element comparison capabilities, further solidifying the library's usability in React and React Native applications.
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