Chris Oliver
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Oliver is a CEO and Ruby on Rails/Python engineer with 16 years of experience building web and cross-platform desktop applications, best known for founding GoRails and creating JumpstartRails and Hatchbox. He records popular screencasts and hosts the Remote Ruby Podcast, teaching intermediate Rails developers practical features, refactors, and modern libraries like ActionCable, Vue.js, and React. An active open-source contributor, Chris has contributed to Rails core (ActionText), kredis, Devise and many community gems while maintaining app templates and Stimulus/Tailwind components. Early in his career he built Keryx, an offline Ubuntu package downloader shipped over 250k times and featured in Linux Journal, underscoring his long-standing focus on practical tooling and developer experience.
16 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (73)
url-routing10
devise10
testing10
rspec10
authentication10
mvc10
stimulusjs10
multitenancy10
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript10
app-framework10
sidekiq10
notification10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
excid3/tailwindcss-stimulus-components
Dec 2018 - Mar 2022
A set of StimulusJS components for TailwindCSS apps similar to Bootstrap JS components.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 32 reviews, 166 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the development of a StimulusJS-based component library for TailwindCSS apps. They made changes to several components, including the dropdown, modal, and tabs, along with the introduction of new components like autosave and popover. Their work included both UI/UX adjustments to improve the functionality and usability of the library. The user also fixed a critical bug by updating the modal component.
tailwindcsspurgecsssimilartailwindcss
pay-rails/pay
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
Payments for Ruby on Rails apps
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 releases, 67 reviews, 967 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Chris made several commits focused on enhancing the backend functionality of a Ruby on Rails payments application. Contributions included adding features such as name and status fields to subscriptions, implementing a concern for the Billable module, and incorporating more generic subscription features for Stripe. The changes also involved modifying models, including adding validations and methods for managing subscription state, and introducing payment methods to facilitate core payment functions.
ruby-on-railspaymentspaystriperails
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