Chris Case
GIS Architect And UI UX Team Lead at Crop Risk Services
Lubbock, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Case is a GIS architect and UI/UX team lead with 14 years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale, high-concurrency web and mapping applications. Based in Lubbock, Texas, he blends hands-on engineering—fluent in JavaScript, Python, C#, and Erlang—with practical leadership, having reduced core-application issues by 77% and grown teams through mentorship and process improvements. He’s contributed front-end features and tests to the widely used OpenLayers project and has experience improving cross-platform UI libraries like libRocket. A pragmatist who also loves systems design, Chris has architected scalable GIS services, pioneered WebSocket-based tile loading, and even implemented his own database, reflecting a rare combination of deep technical craft and product-focused UX sensibility.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at State University of New York College at Fredonia
English
Github Skills (13)
uid10
maps10
javascript10
c-language10
layout-engine10
cprogramming-language10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
openlayers10
html9
css9
unit-testing9
python7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
openlayers/openlayers
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
OpenLayers
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 64 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the front-end development of the OpenLayers library, focusing on adding new interactive features. They added functionality for drawing circles, including updates to the core interaction logic and examples. Further, they implemented a translate interaction for moving existing features. The user also incorporated unit tests to validate the new drawing features, enhancing the library's quality.
javascriptopenlayersgis
libRocket/libRocket
Jan 2012 - Mar 2012
libRocket - The HTML/CSS User Interface library
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to fixing and improving the UI library. Their work involved resolving compilation issues related to Python bindings, by modifying the EventListenerInstancer files. They also addressed layout and rendering by correcting width and height calculations for elements, including absolute and form elements. These changes improve the library's compatibility and rendering accuracy for various element types.
user-interfacecssjavascripthtml-csslibrocket
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