Chris Blackwell
VP Of Software Engineering at Yab
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Blackwell is a VP of Software Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building performant web applications and leading engineering teams from Toronto. He blends practical full‑stack expertise—Laravel backends, React/Vue frontends, WordPress tuning and TailwindCSS—with founder instincts honed running Yab since 2016. Known for squeezing measurable performance gains out of existing stacks, he documents hard-won solutions on his technical blog and mentors teams to apply those lessons. Comfortable shipping product-focused features and debugging deep issues, he pairs a Computer Science degree from Laurentian University with a pragmatic, outdoorsy Canadian work ethic that includes fishing and snowmobiling.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Laurentian University/Université Laurentienne
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Github Skills (56)
web-application10
laravel10
php10
foundation9
application-framework9
traits9
laravel-elixir9
expressive9
laravel-framework9
api8
macros8
laravel-api8
cryptocurrency7
webpack-plugin7
tenancy7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chrisblackwell/chrisblackwell
Jan 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
chrisblackwell/wordpress-custom-post-type
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
apiwordpresscustom-post-typeseasy-to-understandwordpress-plugin
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