Chris Branson
Managing Director at Circle Software & Design
England, United Kingdom
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SeniorChris Branson is a seasoned software entrepreneur and managing director with over two decades of experience building and exiting successful rental software businesses and now leading a boutique Ruby on Rails development and design agency. He has grown teams to 150 people across multiple countries, delivered both on-premise and cloud solutions, and completed multi-million pound exits to a PE-backed buyer. Technically hands-on, Chris blends deep expertise in Rails, SQL, API design, AWS and TDD with practical experience in native mobile bindings—having updated MonoTouch/Xamarin.iOS SDK bindings for real-world integrations. He excels at turning complex commercial problems into elegant, cost-effective products that customers enjoy and stakeholders value. Based in England, he still relishes diving into architecture and deployment details while running a premium consulting practice.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (7)
ios10
sdk10
csharp10
xamarin-ios10
dotnet-core10
obj9
objective-c9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mono/monotouch-bindings
Mar 2011 - Aug 2011
A collection of third party bindings for MonoTouch
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:7 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to bindings for the RedLaser SDK within the MonoTouch/Xamarin.iOS environment. Their work involved updating the bindings to support newer versions of the SDK (2.9.2, 3.0.0, and 3.1.1), reflecting changes in the API and functionality. They also corrected data types and added features, like checking for Flash and Torch states, showcasing their ability to adapt to evolving SDKs and ensure compatibility.
dotnetpartycsharpmonotouchthird-party
chrisbranson/ruby_identicon
Aug 2013 - Aug 2021
A Ruby gem for creating Github like identicons
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 20 commits in 8 years 1 month
ruby-gemidenticonsrailsrubygem
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