Brian Chitester
Senior Software Engineer at Coinbase
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolBrian Chitester is a Senior Software Engineer based in Greater Boston with 12 years of experience building full-stack web applications and migrating complex systems toward service-oriented architectures. He currently contributes to Coinbase, where his open-source work on the widely used coinbase-wallet-sdk spans frontend UX (dark mode, styling fixes) and backend robustness (type additions, crypto library migration, improved error handling). Prior roles at dutchie, CarGurus, Drift, and Vistaprint show a consistent track record of shipping customer-facing design tools and platform improvements, from prototyping design studios to production-grade JavaScript engineering. He brings a pragmatic blend of hands-on coding, QA-driven discipline (early career automation testing), and product empathy gained by working across startups and large teams. An RPI alumnus (BS CS, Cum Laude), he pairs solid engineering fundamentals with attention to polish that improves both developer and end-user experiences. Notably, his background includes practical customer-facing roles (computer repair, Uber driver) that inform a user-first perspective in technical decisions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Cum Laude, BS, Computer Science, Cum Laude at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
coinbase9
ethereum9
react9
ethereum-wallet9
backend8
ui-design8
back-end-development8
debugging7
debug7
darksky7
darkmode7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
coinbase/coinbase-wallet-sdk
May 2022 - Jul 2022
An open protocol that lets users connect their mobile wallets to your DApp
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 22 reviews, 9 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the Coinbase Wallet SDK, focusing on both frontend and backend aspects of the project. They refactored the event listener, renaming it and adding types, which indicates backend work. They also implemented dark mode for the UI and fixed styling issues, demonstrating frontend development. Furthermore, they migrated from js-sha256 to sha.js, and fixed the error handling when user closes extension dialog without connecting, suggesting contributions across multiple parts of the codebase.
walletscoinbasedappethereumopen-protocol
brianchitester/hanzi-vue
Nov 2018 - Sep 2022
Chinese character quiz written in vue.js
Contributions:33 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
chinesevue-jsjavascriptvuecharacter
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