Andrew Chalkley
Director, Principal Architect - Architecture And Advanced Services at eBay
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Chalkley is a seasoned software leader and principal architect with 17 years of experience, currently directing Architecture and Advanced Services at eBay from Portland, Oregon. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering—Node.js, GraphQL, React Native, Flutter/Dart and Unity/C#—with people-first leadership, coaching teams that run over 30 production services and ship mobile and spatial-computing experiences. As an inaugural member of BFF and Spatial Computing teams, he has driven early adoption of OpenAPI microservices and AR/VR prototypes while helping shape internal GraphQL and AI integration standards. A prolific inventor and IPSC member, he’s reviewed hundreds of patents and holds dozens of awards and filings himself, bringing a practiced eye for novel, buildable IP. He contributes to open source documentation (notably for the widely used node-serialport project), reflecting a commitment to developer experience as well as end-user UX. Collectedly, his career spans startup founding, technical teaching, and product architecture—an engineer who builds systems and the teams that sustain them.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Nothing Drop out, Nothing Drop out at The University of HuddersfieldA Levels Maths Chemistry Physics, A Levels Maths Chemistry Physics at Hessle High Sixth Form
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Github Skills (14)
nodejs10
electron10
documentation10
macos9
javascript9
caching6
ios6
swift6
iphone6
command-line6
cocoa6
ipad6
ruby-on-rails6
sequelizejs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
serialport/node-serialport
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Access serial ports with JavaScript. Linux, OSX and Windows. Welcome your robotic JavaScript overlords. Better yet, program them!
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the project's documentation. Their commits focused on adding and modifying documentation files, particularly the README.hbs file. These changes included updating sections related to Electron integration, installation, and command-line tools. The user also corrected links and ensured consistency in the documentation's format and titles.
serialnode-serialportportsjavascriptnodejs
chalkers/espruino-adafruit-led-backpack
Nov 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 11 months
adafruitledespruinoled-matrixmatrix
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