Chris Gomez
Staff Engineer at Bankrate
Banner Elk, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolChris Gomez is a Staff Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance JavaScript applications and leading teams to deliver measurable business outcomes. He has a proven track record modernizing legacy systems and driving monetization and reliability improvements across education and finance verticals, including resolving production issues tied to significant revenue loss. A pragmatic engineering leader, Chris pairs hands-on contributions to open-source—improving CanJS core modules and view performance—with strategic work establishing CI/CD, isomorphic SSR, and A/B testing capabilities. Based in Banner Elk, NC, he excels at turning adrift teams into predictable delivery engines and often focuses on developer culture and operational visibility as levers for sustainable impact.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
None, Mechanical Engineering, None, Mechanical Engineering at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (9)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
javascript10
dom10
canjs10
crud9
testing9
binary-search8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
canjs/canjs
Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
Build CRUD apps in fewer lines of code.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 34 PRs, 86 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the `canjs/canjs` repository by fixing bugs and optimizing code related to the framework's features. Their work involved addressing issues in the `stache` and `compute` modules, focusing on areas such as method updates and anonymous function execution. Additionally, the user optimized the sort plugin for insertion operations and improved the handling of index updates within the view live system. These changes enhanced the framework's performance and stability.
linesjavascriptframeworkcrudlines-of-code
canjs/can-binarytree
Aug 2015 - May 2017
Observable binary tree data structures for CanJS
Contributions:65 commits, 1 PR, 62 pushes in 1 year 9 months
binary-treedata-structuresjavascriptobservable
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