Chris Donnelly
Senior Developer at vAuto
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChris Donnelly is a Senior Developer based in Austin with 15 years of professional software engineering experience and a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from UT Austin. He has driven growth-stage engineering work, including a decade as Software Systems Architect helping scale a firm from a dozen to over 200 employees, and now contributes senior-level development at vAuto. Chris is a practical full-stack problem solver who also contributes to notable open-source tooling—most recently improving Git handling and test coverage in the widely used oh-my-posh prompt renderer. His strengths lie in stabilizing complex workflows, improving developer UX around source control, and shipping targeted fixes that prevent subtle Git-state regressions. Colleagues know him for deep, methodical debugging and for pairing product-minded engineering with durable technical design.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Mathematics, BS, Computer Science, Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (21)
nuget10
json10
git10
testing10
entity-framework10
go10
prompt9
customizing9
customisation9
prompting9
iis6
netcore6
sh6
script6
shell6
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Github contributions (5)
JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Git segment of the project, fixing bugs related to cherry-pick and revert functionalities. They added comprehensive tests to cover different Git states, including sequences of cherry-picks and reverts. Additionally, the user implemented support for detecting when an upstream branch no longer exists, enhancing the Git status display.
unicornsstarshipshellconemuzsh
cdonnellytx/vim-ps1
Sep 2016 - Dec 2024
Contributions:9 pushes in 8 years 4 months
vimwindowswindows-powershellpowershellvim-plugin
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