Chris Dosé
Software Engineer at Whatnot
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChris Dosé is a seasoned software engineer based in Seattle with 16 years of experience building back-end systems using PHP, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and a recent focus on Elixir and Phoenix. He has held senior and staff engineering roles at startups and scale-ups—most recently joining Whatnot after driving backend architecture at GridPoint and Blitz. Chris contributes to notable open-source tooling like asdf-vm, improving its plugin management and shell integrations, and is exploring hardware-adjacent development with Nerves. Comfortable across the stack from APIs to deployment scripts, he combines pragmatic engineering with a history of rebuilding legacy systems and mentoring teams. His background includes public-sector and research-driven projects, reflecting an ability to translate complex domain requirements into maintainable production software.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Louisiana State UniversityUniversity of New Orleans
German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
bash10
shell10
cli9
git9
javascript6
crystal-lang6
benchmarking6
opengl6
pointer6
elixir6
ruby6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
asdf-vm/asdf
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the `asdf` version manager, focusing on plugin management. Their work included implementing a git-based plugin repository, updating the plugin repository URL, and making changes to the plugin addition command. Furthermore, they addressed code quality by fixing shellcheck warnings. Their contributions involved modifying shell scripts to improve the project's functionality.
erlangnode-jselixirrubyasdf-vm
doughsay/crystal-open-simplex-noise
Jul 2017 - Apr 2020
2D, 3D, and 4D open simplex noise in crystal.
Contributions:2 releases, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 9 months
simplexsimplex-noisecrystalperlin-noiseprocedural-generation
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