Carson Mcmanus
Chief Technology Officer at Freelance
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolCarson Mcmanus is a seasoned software engineer and current Chief Technology Officer with 11 years of hands-on experience building reliable systems and leading technical efforts. He blends full-stack and backend expertise—contributing core fixes to the Biome toolchain, improving linting/formatting for web projects, and enhancing Rust server frameworks like valence-rs—alongside meaningful Python work in SymPy’s units system. A longtime open-source advocate and core contributor, he publishes projects on GitHub, creates developer-focused YouTube content, and has a history of shipping production-grade tooling at scale from internships at Meta and IBM. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he has built custom distributed caches and linters that reduced on-call load and prevented production issues. Based in Winston-Salem, NC, he’s actively seeking full-time roles and will not consider crypto startups, bringing both technical depth and a clear personal ethos to team fit.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Stevens Institute of TechnologySimon G. Atkins High School
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Github Skills (39)
minecraft10
computer-algebra10
javascript10
python10
inventory-management10
sympy10
formatter10
inventory-management-system10
physics10
formatters10
unit-conversion10
linter10
rust10
game-development10
jsx10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
biomejs/biome
May 2024 - Apr 2025
A toolchain for web projects, aimed to provide functionalities to maintain them. Biome offers formatter and linter, usable via CLI and LSP.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:304 reviews, 263 PRs, 269 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Carson primarily contributed to the Biome toolchain, focusing on improvements to the linting and formatting features. They implemented fixes for the `useJsxKeyInIterable` rule to correctly handle edge cases, including handling fragments, ternaries, and JSX in variable declarations. The user also addressed issues with the `useSingleCaseStatement` rule and added support for `lang="tsx"` in Vue SFCs.
cssformatterjavascriptjsonjsx
valence-rs/valence
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
A Rust framework for building Minecraft servers.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:350 reviews, 20 commits, 133 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Carson primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the Minecraft server framework. Their work included updating core data structures for chat messages and command execution, preventing bugs and improving overall stability. The user also implemented new client events related to inventory management, along with a demonstration example for building functionality. Furthermore, they refactored inventory-related code, including ItemStack handling and consumed items.
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