ChrisĀ Breiding
Senior Software Engineer at Cypress.io
Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolChris Breiding is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently advancing test automation and developer experience at Cypress.io. He combines deep hands-on work across end-to-end testing, CI Docker images, and documentationācontributing to core Cypress repos, migration guides, and testing recipes used widely in the community. Comfortable wearing multiple hats, he blends QA, devops, and technical writing to improve reliability and developer onboarding for browser-based testing. Prior roles include freelance development and full-stack work at NAVEX Global, and he has taught JavaScript meetups, showing a knack for translating complex technical topics into practical guidance. Based in Pennsylvania and holding a BA from the University of Michigan, he brings sustained open-source impact to production-grade tooling.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of Michigan
Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
e2e-testing10
docker10
javascript10
cypress10
scripting10
docker-image10
testing10
e2e-test10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
sh10
shell10
documentation10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cypress-io/cypress-docker-images
Apr 2019 - Sep 2022
Docker images with Cypress dependencies and browsers
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:45 reviews, 66 commits, 49 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on building and integrating Cypress Docker images. They implemented build scripts for various Cypress versions and browser combinations, including base images and images with browsers. Their contributions involved adding new image versions, updating existing ones, and incorporating Cypress versions into the images. This work involved creating and managing Docker images, which is crucial for the repository's purpose of providing pre-built Cypress environments.
waitdependenciesdocker-imagebrowsersdocker
cypress-io/cypress
May 2016 - Dec 2022
Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.
Role in this project:Test Automation Engineer
Test Automation EngineerContributions:31 releases, 1482 reviews, 2269 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily focus on enhancing and maintaining the testing infrastructure for the Cypress project. They have made changes to the e2e test setup, added new test cases, and addressed issues related to cross-domain testing and file downloads. Their contributions also involve improvements to the error reporting in the test runner, and ensuring the performance of the test suite.
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