Chris Erickson
Senior Software Analyst Developer at Automated Financial Systems, Inc. (AFS)
Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolChris Erickson is a seasoned Senior Software Analyst/Developer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining Java/J2EE enterprise applications across regulated industries like banking, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals. He combines deep backend expertise—Spring, Hibernate, SOAP/REST, JUnit/TestNG, and CI/CD—with practical ops and scripting skills (Bash, Python, Perl) to reliably ship software on WAS, Tomcat, and JBoss. Comfortable across the stack, he has added front-end HTML5/JavaScript and Node/Angular exposure while regularly improving test automation (Selenium) and build automation (Gradle/Maven/Ant). His open-source contributions include backend reliability and test improvements to RapidPro’s messaging platform, reflecting a focus on robust API error handling and test coverage. Known for operating effectively in small agile teams and regulated environments, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong system-level thinking.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer and Information Science, BS, Computer and Information Science at University of Delaware
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Github Skills (12)
api10
python10
apidoc10
django10
webhooks10
testing10
git7
django-models6
html6
django-testing6
apache6
jinja26
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rapidpro/rapidpro
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
RapidPro allows organizations to visually build scalable interactive messaging applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 23 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the back-end logic of the RapidPro application by addressing error handling for webhook responses and implementing changes to process them correctly. They also merged branches and integrated changes from other contributors. Furthermore, the user introduced and improved tests, which involved setting up test scenarios and verifying expected responses, including specific cases with 400 errors. Their work demonstrates a focus on improving the reliability and functionality of the application's API interaction and testing capabilities.
scalableorganizationsrapidpromessaging
coremke/django-leaf
Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 6 commits, 3 PRs in 8 months
djangorenderdjango-templatespython
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