Chris Calo
Global Head Of Design at Vulcan
Londonderry, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Calo is a multidisciplinary design and engineering leader with 13 years blending product design and full-stack development to maximize client ROI. As Global Head of Design at Octant and long-time Creative Director at Vulcan, he shapes strategy while still shipping front-end code and UI polish. He’s a founder-level operator who has led design and engineering at startups and enterprise teams—contributing to notable projects like the React-based Sunflower Land UI where he resolved complex animation and NFT display issues. Comfortable across brand, marketing, and engineering, Chris moves between design systems and production code to de-risk product launches. Based in Londonderry, New Hampshire, he pairs dual BASc/BA degrees from UMass Lowell with a hands-on, generalist approach that surfaces unexpected efficiencies. Colleagues describe him as the rare creative technologist who can execute high-level vision and also fix the animation loop at 2 a.m.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell
German, English
Github Skills (15)
css10
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
web-development10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
web-application10
webapp10
component-design10
react10
typescript-types10
github-ci3
githubaction-workflow3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sunflower-land/sunflower-land
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 16 commits, 10 PRs in 29 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on front-end development tasks, implementing and refining UI components within a React application. They addressed animation looping issues, resolved display problems related to NFT counts, and conditionally displayed UI elements based on date. The user also integrated and styled new UI elements, improved existing ones, and introduced a halvening banner to inform users of upcoming supply changes.
vulcancreative/serverless-storage
Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
Serverless plugin defining DynamoDB storage primitives; like localStorage but better
Contributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 25 PRs in 1 year 4 months
dynamodblocalstorageserverless-plugin
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