Chris Ely
Greater Philadelphia United States
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Top SchoolChris Ely is a versatile software and systems engineer with 12 years of experience translating complex technical requirements into reliable, production-ready solutions across databases, virtualization, clustered web platforms, and networked systems. He combines strong pattern recognition and problem-solving skills with hands-on expertise in IT strategy, project management, and multi-discipline operations—often stepping in to deliver results under-resourced projects. Chris contributes to open-source back-end projects, including meaningful Lua backend refactoring and testing for the widely used PowerDNS suite, demonstrating attention to logging, protocol detail, and regression coverage. Comfortable balancing big-picture architecture with implementation minutiae, he excels at foreseeing integration risks others miss and designing pragmatic fixes. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he holds a BS from Drexel and brings practical breadth from roles that span systems administration to database and network engineering.
12 years of coding experience
BS, BS at Drexel UniversityAA, AA at Bucks County Community College
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Github Skills (14)
lua10
powerdns10
back-end-development10
authority9
dns-resolver9
auth9
nameserver9
authorisation9
dns8
nodejs6
docker6
docker-compose6
javascript6
testing6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
PowerDNS/pdns
Jul 2017 - Sep 2019
PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 8 PRs, 22 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Lua backend functionality within the PowerDNS authoritative server. They addressed issues related to logging, including renaming and cleaning up logging-related parameters. Additionally, they added features like providing both qtype.name and qtype.code values and fixed compilation errors. The user's work involved modifying Lua backend code and documentation, and adding a regression test.
dnsdistpowerdns-recursordnssystems-programmingrecursor
tcely/docker-powerdns
Jul 2017 - Jul 2018
PowerDNS Docker Image based on Alpine
Contributions:5 releases, 16 PRs, 52 pushes in 11 months
docker-imagedockerpowerdnsmultiarchalpine
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