Chris Dell
Software Developer at Sitedesk Ltd
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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RockstarChris Dell is a versatile software developer based in Manchester with 12 years of experience spanning full-stack, mobile and systems-level work. He co-runs Christopher Dell Web Solutions and contributes across the stack at Sitedesk Ltd, building API servers, desktop and web clients, mobile apps, and 3D design tooling using technologies from Node.js and WebGL to C++, Java and Objective‑C. Chris has practical experience modernizing legacy systems into single-page apps, and his open-source contributions include adding Android support to the widely used react-native-fs library—implementing file I/O, downloads and refactoring for reliability. Comfortable shipping in AWS-hosted environments, he brings a pragmatic blend of hands-on engineering and cross-platform mobile expertise, with a track record of turning complex, multidisciplinary requirements into working products.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
itinance/react-native-fs
Oct 2015 - Jan 2017
Native filesystem access for react-native
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:2 releases, 77 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Android implementation of the react-native-fs library. Their work included adding initial Android support by creating the necessary Java files and package setup. Key additions include methods for writing, reading, and deleting files, directory management, and downloading files, which significantly expanded the library's functionality on the Android platform. The user further refactored the download implementation using AsyncTask, and improved the existing readDir method.
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cjdell/type-safe-validator
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
A validation library designed to take full advantage of the TypeScript type system. All return types are inferred directly from the schema.
Contributions:38 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
validationzodvalidation-libraryvalidationstypesafe
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