Chris Forrence
Director Of Engineering at OxBlue
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolChris Forrence is a pragmatic engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling customer-facing web platforms, currently serving as Director of Engineering at OxBlue. A Georgia Tech computer science graduate, he evolved from low-level systems work into people-centered platform architecture, guiding teams through technical direction, delivery, and operational improvements. He combines hands-on back-end expertise—evident in contributions to projects like the PHP-based OpenCFP conference system—with a knack for automating workflows and reducing repetitive developer tasks. Chris has a track record of shipping practical internal and external tools, from a web app for the Georgia Tech Marching Band to property-management utilities, and is active in the developer community as an AtlantaPHP co-organizer and a top 7% Stack Overflow contributor. Known for improving team practices (issue tracking, testing, refactors) and translating user needs into usable applications, he focuses on impact and usability as much as technical correctness.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
10,032reputation
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291answers
4questions
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Github Skills (22)
unit-testing10
switch-statement10
if-statement10
php10
form-validation10
integration-testing10
mysql9
ffmpeg9
back-end-development9
java9
laravel9
linux9
paper8
twig7
conferencing7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
opencfp/opencfp
Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
Repo for OpenCFP project, a PHP-based conference talk submission system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 18 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the OpenCFP project, focusing on user authentication, form validation, and the modification of existing features. They implemented unit and integration tests to ensure the correct functionality and behavior of the user signup and login flows. The user also refactored code related to the validation of external URLs like joind.in, and adjusted user-facing forms and front-end elements.
php-basedcall-for-papersphpconferencesconference-talk
chrisforrence/JustRandomSmashUp
Jul 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 10 months
javascript
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