Chris Bailey
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Bailey is a seasoned software engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building front-end web applications and native macOS/Swift tooling. He has driven major front-end rewrites and analytics efforts at companies like ShopStyle and contributed user-facing React integrations to popular tools such as Raycast, where he built a Bonjour extension that surfaces and caches network services. Comfortable across Angular, Node, Swift, and React, he balances product-focused UI work with backend data instrumentation and deployment. At Stilt and Host Writer he’s been shipping production apps while also owning marketing and distribution for a macOS host-file manager. Known for pragmatic, reusable solutions—like a single-entry tracking system that unified cross-product events—he brings both engineering rigor and an eye for product detail. Chris pairs a practical engineering toolkit with hands-on open-source contributions that improve developer workflows and end-user experience.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (12)
uid10
javascript10
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front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
apim9
css8
open-source7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
raycast/extensions
Mar 2024 - Jun 2025
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 14 PRs, 16 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the development of a "Bonjour" extension for the Raycast application. They focused on building the user interface with React components and the Raycast API, including the display of service details in a list and menu bar extra. Their work involved fetching and caching service data, implementing UI elements like icons and action panels, and integrating functionality to open services in the browser. The user also implemented status color-coding for services.
raycast
that70schris/extensions
Aug 2024 - Jun 2025
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Contributions:161 pushes, 7 branches in 9 months
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