Chris Blackburn
Solutions Architect at America's Job Link Alliance-Technical Support
Boise, Idaho, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Blackburn is a Solutions Architect with eight years of experience designing distributed, service-oriented web applications and internet solutions for clients ranging from small businesses to enterprises like GE and Sprint. Based in Boise, he specializes in scalable, highly available Ruby on Rails systems backed by MySQL/PostgreSQL, Linux administration, and AWS infrastructure. His technical toolkit includes Apache/NGINX, JavaScript, VoIP and wireless communications, enabling end-to-end delivery from network layer to application. Chris has a track record of architecting resilient systems for both startup and corporate environments at Midwire Technologies and AJLA. He combines hands-on implementation skills with pragmatic operational knowledge, often bridging development and sysadmin roles to reduce production risk. Known for solving complex integration challenges, he brings practical, deployment-focused architecture to projects that demand reliability and scale.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (77)
read-text10
zipcode10
census-data10
google-translate10
geonames10
translate10
zeplin10
cascading9
internationalization9
sh9
translator9
xslt9
schematron9
api8
localization8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AJLA-TS/yomu
Apr 2018 - Apr 2021
Read text and metadata from files and documents (.doc, .docx, .pages, .odt, .rtf, .pdf)
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
pdfdocxodtread-textmetadata
midwire/parliament_test
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Test repository for Parliament
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes in 1 day
parliamenttestingtest-repository
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