Chance Dinkins
Co-Founder, Architect at CyberStride
Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolChance Dinkins is a software engineer and architect with 12 years of experience building solutions for startups, Fortune 50 companies, and federal agencies from his base in Columbia, SC. As Co-Founder and Architect at CyberStride, he pairs client-facing product design with hands-on implementation, especially for early-stage applications. He co-founded EatingNow and has held senior developer roles at HP Enterprise Services, bringing both entrepreneurial and enterprise discipline to projects. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core ergonomics of the serde-rs/json Rust library by refining Number and Value APIs to make JSON handling more intuitive. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina and is known for blending pragmatic architecture with low-level attention to developer-facing APIs.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at University of South Carolina
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Github Skills (18)
json10
nodejs10
rust10
serde10
middleware9
javascript9
mongoose9
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms8
algorithm8
mongodb6
visual-studio6
modularity6
asp-net-mvc6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
serde-rs/json
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
Strongly typed JSON library for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Chance primarily focused on enhancing the `serde-rs/json` library. Their contributions involved implementing and refining the `as_str` and `as_number` methods for the `Number` and `Value` structs, respectively. The changes included adding configurations and examples, demonstrating a focus on improving the library's functionality and usability. These changes aimed to improve how users interact with and utilize the library's core data structures.
serdejsonpathrustjson-librarystrongly-typed
chanced/filedrop-svelte
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
File dropzone for Svelte.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 68 commits in 1 year 2 months
dropzonetypescript-definitionsfile-dropzonesveltedrag-and-drop
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