Chesley Brown
Senior Software Engineer at Fountain
Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChesley Brown is a senior software engineer and founder with 15 years of experience building scalable web and distributed systems from Halifax-area Nova Scotia. He has led engineering efforts at InVision—planning cross-team projects, migrating hundreds of millions of assets with zero downtime, and improving developer velocity by orchestrating complex local environments for 100+ services—and most recently contributes at Fountain after a stint at Proof. Comfortable across Go, Node.js, TypeScript, React, Docker and AWS, Chesley pairs hands-on coding with systems thinking, observability and runbook-driven operations. An active open-source front-end contributor (notably improving UI/theming for the Aglio API Blueprint renderer), he balances product-minded engineering with entrepreneurial grit from founding RentChek. Outside work he’s a coding enthusiast, husband and father, often bringing pragmatic, test-first practices to long-lived systems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Website Administrator, Diploma Website Administrator at College of the North AtlanticHigh School, High School at Stella Maris Academy
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Github Skills (15)
css10
j10
front-end-development10
theming10
ui-design9
bootstrap9
javascript9
bootstra9
html9
api-documentation8
typescript6
jestjs6
zurb-foundation6
mocking6
angularjs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
danielgtaylor/aglio
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
An API Blueprint renderer with theme support that outputs static HTML
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 issue in 17 days
Contributions summary:Chesley primarily focused on enhancing the UI and styling of the API Blueprint renderer, Aglio. Their commits show a strong emphasis on theming, including the creation of collapsible menus and layout adjustments across different themes (Bootstrap, Slate, Cyborg, Flatly). They also added hover effects and refined the appearance of various elements, indicating a hands-on approach to front-end development and design.
apiblueprintoutputsstatic-htmlrenderer
chesleybrown/bitbucket-codeship-status
Nov 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:71 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
codeshipbuild-statusstatusbitbucketpull-requests
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