Chris Alfano
CEO at Jarvus Innovations
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Alfano is a civic technologist and CEO with 14 years of experience applying cloud and mobile technologies to improve local public services, currently focused on public transit and competency-based education. As founder and long-time leader of Jarvus Innovations and a founder of Code for Philly, he blends entrepreneurial leadership with hands-on systems and DevOps work. He has practical experience shaping build and deployment tooling—contributing Habitat plans for tools like netdata, restic, and kubectl—which underpins his infrastructure-first approach to civic projects. Based in Philadelphia, he pairs grassroots community organizing with product-minded engineering to help volunteer and municipal teams deliver impact. Known to describe himself as a “techno-rebel,” he favors open-source collaboration and pragmatic experimentation over one-size-fits-all solutions.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Drexel University
Stackoverflow
1,688reputation
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20answers
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Github Skills (30)
gnu-make10
package-management10
build-system10
makefile10
cicd10
package-manager-tool10
go10
packager10
package10
package-manager10
scripting9
extjs9
dockers9
docker9
automation9
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
habitat-sh/core-plans
Jan 2017 - Oct 2021
Core Habitat Plan definitions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 59 commits, 49 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the repository by defining and modifying build plans. They introduced and updated plans for several tools and applications, including netdata, goaccess, restic, and kubectl. The user added build dependencies, fixed interpreters in several scripts, and included runtime dependencies, signifying involvement in the build and deployment process.
planhabitatpackage-managerdefinitionspackages
CodeForPhilly/Projects-101
Apr 2017 - Sep 2018
Open source project support for the Code for Philly community.
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
phillypythonopen-source-project
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