Chap Ambrose
Lead Member Of Technical Staff at Heroku
Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChap Ambrose is a Lead Member of Technical Staff with 16 years building web applications and infrastructure for nonprofits, startups, and enterprise teams, currently at Heroku. Rooted in Ruby and JavaScript but fluent across languages, he pairs hands-on engineering with interaction-design training to solve problems by working backward from user needs. He excels in small, remote teams where candid critique and nimble collaboration drive fast iteration, and he’s known for leveling up peers through coaching and technical leadership. His background includes production engineering and deployment pipeline work at MuleSoft, transformational single-developer systems for long-running nonprofit workflows, and founding community-minded projects like Pocket Hotline. Notably, his support-focused roles forced continuous learning across diverse tech stacks, expanding his perspective beyond his Ruby origins. Based in Texas, he brings pragmatic product sense, user-centered design, and operational rigor to resilient, customer-facing systems.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Art, Industrial Design, Bachelor of Fine Art, Industrial Design at Savannah College of Art and DesignCertificate, Interaction Design & Social Entrepreneurship, Certificate, Interaction Design & Social Entrepreneurship at Austin Center for Design
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ruby-on-rails
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Github Skills (76)
heroku-cli10
infrastructure10
dx10
heroku10
microservices10
npm-cli10
google-chrome10
silex10
cli9
ruby9
ruby-on-rails9
docker9
php9
backstage9
nginx9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chap/flow-demo
Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:72 PRs, 158 pushes, 78 branches in 26 days
chap/node-js-getting-started
Sep 2019 - Jan 2025
Getting Started with Node on Heroku
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
herokunodejs
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