Chris C
Software Consultant And Owner at Saturday Morning Productions
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolChris C is a seasoned software consultant and founder with over two decades of hands-on development experience, currently helping teams ship secure, high-quality software faster through Saturday Morning Productions. He blends practical technical leadership with developer coaching, shifting organizations from reactive to proactive engineering practices while running client engagements and offering free consultations. An active open-source maintainer, Chris contributes to prominent tooling like the Ruby linter/formatter standardrb, improving ignore-file handling and test automation. He hosts and co-hosts community programs—the Saturday MP Show, Weekly Dev Chat, and Legacy Code Rocks—bringing approachable discussions on legacy systems and secure development to a broad audience. Based in Edmonton, he also participates in local security and developer chapters and presents at conferences, combining community building with deep systems experience. Beyond coding, he has a knack for making complex legacy systems testable and maintainable, turning institutional knowledge into repeatable engineering practices.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing Science at University of AlbertaE-Commerce MCSD.NET Diploma Program, Software Development, E-Commerce MCSD.NET Diploma Program, Software Development at DevStudios
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Github Skills (9)
ruby10
rubocop10
test-automation10
testing10
yaml9
formatters9
linter9
formatter9
git7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
standardrb/standard
Dec 2019 - Sep 2022
Ruby's bikeshed-proof linter and formatter 🚲
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 33 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the `standardrb/standard` repository, which is a Ruby linter and formatter. Their work focused on implementing and refactoring features related to generating and managing ignore files for the linter. The user added tests to ensure the correct functionality of the ignore file generation and merging processes. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the RuboCop configuration and resolved issues related to the handling of file paths within the testing environment.
textlintlinterfixerstyle-guideruby
corgibytes/ruby-debug-ide
Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
An interface which glues ruby-debug to IDEs like Eclipse (RDT), NetBeans and RubyMine. Forked to fix issues with legacy Ruby versions.
Contributions:139 commits, 32 PRs, 141 pushes in 1 year 11 months
netbeansrubyminerubyrdtdebug
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