Chris Gmyr
Staff Software Engineer at Rula
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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RockstarChris Gmyr is a Staff Software Engineer based in Cary, NC with 25+ years in web development and over a decade of professional experience delivering high-traffic, resilient systems. He has a strong track record of architecting microservices and APIs—building the first microservice at Curology that handled 100k+ daily requests with sub-80ms P95 latency and designing survey and webhook systems that processed millions of events. A hands-on leader and mentor, he codified API standards, tooling, and onboarding programs that improved team quality and sped migrations of large user bases. Chris is an active open-source maintainer in the Laravel ecosystem (notably contributing to phpinsights and his laravel-messenger package), and he blends entrepreneurial product sensibilities from founding agencies with deep backend expertise. Outside work he’s a husband, dad, coffee lover, and co-organizer of TrianglePHP—signaling a commitment to community and craft beyond the code.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (16)
quality-assurance10
php10
data-quality10
laravel10
software-quality10
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
cli10
messenger10
database-design9
static-analysis9
version-control9
git9
package7
composer7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cmgmyr/laravel-messenger
Oct 2014 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 releases, 3 reviews, 373 commits in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the development of a simple user messaging package for Laravel. Their work focused on implementing features within the `Thread` and `Participant` models, including adding methods for retrieving the latest message, retrieving user IDs, marking threads as read, and determining if a thread is unread. They also added functionality for soft deletes and participant management, enhancing the core features of the messaging system.
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nunomaduro/phpinsights
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
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Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 3 reviews, 11 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the PHPInsights project by modifying its core functionality and dependencies. They bumped the project version several times, demonstrating responsibility for release management. Key changes involved removing dependencies, updating code references, and integrating changes to the build process related to Github Actions and CI/CD pipelines.
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