Chase Manning
Engineering Lead at Synthetix
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChase Manning is an engineering lead based in London with six years of hands-on experience building and delivering full-stack systems across fintech and SaaS environments. Currently leading engineering at Synthetix after a rapid internal progression from senior full-stack roles, he combines team leadership with deep practical experience in testing and automation. His background includes CTO and team lead responsibilities in New Zealand, evidencing a track record of shipping reliable production software and scaling small teams into delivery-focused units. An attention to quality shows through open-source contributions that expanded test coverage for a widely used node date-formatting library, highlighting a detail-oriented approach to correctness and edge cases. Comfortable across backend and frontend concerns, he pairs a mathematics and computer science degree with a preference for pragmatic, well-tested solutions. Colleagues describe him as reliably recommendable—“recommended by 9/10 people who recommend things”—which hints at a personable, dependable leadership style.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Otago
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Github Skills (12)
date-formatting10
javascript10
nodejs10
date-format10
test-automation10
testing10
html6
vim6
css6
svg-filters6
svg6
google-cloud-shell6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
felixge/node-dateformat
Nov 2020 - Feb 2022
A node.js package for Steven Levithan's excellent dateFormat() function.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 releases, 8 reviews, 152 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Chase primarily contributed to the project by adding comprehensive tests for various aspects of the `node-dateformat` library, including date formatting with different masks. They added tests for masks like `d`, `dd`, `ddd`, `dddd`, `m`, `mm`, `mmm`, `mmmm`, `yy`, `yyyy`, `h`, `hh`, `H`, `HH`, `M`, `MM`, `s`, `ss`, `S`, `l`, `L`, `t`, `tt`, `T`, `TT`, `W` and expanded existing test coverage for functionality such as quoted substrings and timezone formatting. The commits demonstrate a focus on ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the date formatting logic, creating multiple test files.
datetimenode-jsexcellentjavascriptdateformat
chase-manning/react-photo-studio
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
React Photo Studio is a free online photo editor for photography and design
Contributions:3 releases, 889 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year 2 months
photoshop-onlinejavascriptphoto-editingphotoshopphoto-editor
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