Chris Connelly
Director at Digital Society Ltd
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Connelly is a director and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native systems, developer tooling, and mission-driven digital products. He combines hands-on engineering across Rust, Python, Node.js and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes) with leadership in product and team development from Cloudreach to PwC and now a worker-owned cooperative for social good. His background includes critical work on decentralized networking at MaidSafe and contributions to the widely used CoffeeScript compiler, modernizing its ES2015 code generation. Comfortable moving between architecture, release automation and mentoring, he has repeatedly shaped platform-level infrastructure for public sector and managed-service contexts. Based in Edinburgh, he brings a pragmatic, community-minded approach to technology, blending open-source craftsmanship with a focus on reliability and user impact.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at The University of EdinburghInverkeithing High School
English
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
coffeescript10
code-generation10
compiler-development10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
jashkenas/coffeescript
Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
Unfancy JavaScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 21 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the CoffeeScript compiler, focusing on modernizing and improving the code generation process. They implemented ES2015 equivalents for computed properties and splats in arrays and function calls, enhancing the language's compatibility with newer JavaScript standards. Additionally, the user worked on compiling class constructors to ES2015 classes, improving the overall structure and performance of the compilation process. Further enhancements included bug fixes and setting up the context of executable class body wrappers.
javascript
digital-society-coop/axum-sqlx-tx
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Request-scoped sqlx transactions for axum
Contributions:9 releases, 5 reviews, 59 commits in 8 months
axumrustsqlxrequesttransactions
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