Chris Bielinski
Mentor, Engineering Leadership at Shopify
Ladera Ranch, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Bielinski is an experienced engineering leader and mentor with 12 years of building teams and shipping software across fintech and restaurant tech, currently at Shopify and mentoring engineering leaders at Plato. He has scaled engineering orgs through director and senior staff roles at ChowNow and Acorns, balancing hands-on backend craftsmanship with strategic people leadership. A longtime Ruby/Rails practitioner and open-source contributor (notably enhancing a Parse Ruby client with practical convenience methods), he brings pragmatic API and systems sensibilities to product-focused engineering. Based in Ladera Ranch, CA, he thrives in startup environments and is passionate about coaching engineers to deliver robust, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
ruby10
object-oriented-programming10
apidoc9
api9
redis6
sprockets6
asset-pipeline6
ruby-on-rails6
sidekiq6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
adelevie/parse-ruby-client
Sep 2014 - Sep 2014
A simple Ruby client for the parse.com REST API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 16 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Parse Ruby client. Their contributions centered around adding convenience methods like `#update_attributes`, `#first`, and implementing `#array_remove_relation`. They also provided access to application configuration parameters, expanding the client's capabilities. These changes involved modifying core components and improving the client's API access.
restrest-apiruby-client
chrisb/activerecord-logger_attributes
Feb 2018 - Nov 2020
Save Ruby's Logger messages to a database column
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
railsloggerrubyloggingdatabase
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