Chris Boulton
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Boulton is a seasoned infrastructure leader with 17 years of experience building and running productive, dependable engineering teams, currently serving as VP, Infrastructure at BigCommerce in San Francisco. He blends hands-on backend development with strategic operational leadership, focusing on reliability, developer happiness, and scalable systems. An active open-source maintainer, he modernized the popular PHP-Resque library—improving Redis connectivity, Composer-based testing, and error handling—demonstrating attention to both developer ergonomics and production robustness. Known for restructuring teams and codebases alike, he brings a pragmatic, systems-level mindset that balances technical debt reduction with continuous delivery.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
php10
redis10
composer10
api-design9
testing8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
chrisboulton/php-resque
Oct 2012 - Apr 2017
PHP port of resque (Workers and Queueing)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:110 commits, 47 PRs, 44 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on refactoring and improving the PHP-Resque library, a PHP port of the Resque queuing system. Their contributions included updating copyright information, versioning, and restructuring the test suite to utilize Composer for dependency management. Furthermore, the user modernized the codebase by replacing the Redisent library with Credis, adding the ability to connect via DSN strings and also incorporating support for PHP Redis to provide more robust Redis connectivity. The user also addressed compatibility issues with PHP Redis and implemented an error handling system around Redis operations.
redisphp-portresquephpworkers
chrisboulton/php-diff
Jun 2009 - Jun 2022
A comprehensive library for generating differences between two strings in multiple formats (unified, side by side HTML etc). Based on the difflib implementation in Python
Contributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 4 pushes in 13 years 2 months
pythondifflibstringsdifferencesformats
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