Chris Gross
Chief Executive Officer at Flipside Innovation
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Gross is a seasoned software leader and CEO with 13 years of hands-on experience building scalable front-end and big-data solutions from startups to enterprise teams. He rose through technical and management roles at IBM, founded ElementRiver, led engineering at timeRAZOR and TexelTek, and served as Senior Systems Architect before becoming CTO and now CEO at Flipside Innovation. A pragmatic full-stack developer and architect, he combines deep expertise in modern front-end tooling (Angular, Gulp/Grunt, Yeoman) with production experience in Hadoop, Accumulo, and Elasticsearch. He actively contributes to open-source tooling—maintaining a Yeoman generator for enterprise Angular projects that streamlined builds and dependency management. Known for turning complex UI and data requirements into maintainable systems, he blends entrepreneurial instincts with disciplined technical leadership. Based in Washington, D.C., he excels at bridging product vision and engineering execution in mission-driven teams.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
gulp10
g10
javascript10
web-development10
front-end-development10
build-automation10
gruntjs10
angular10
yeoman9
html9
css9
bower7
lessc7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cgross/generator-cg-angular
Jun 2013 - Aug 2016
Yeoman generator for Enterprise Angular projects.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the development of a Yeoman generator for Angular projects. Their work included fixing bugs related to file handling and dependency issues. They refactored the build process, renaming directories, updating dependencies, and integrating a Gulp-based build system. These changes included modifications to Gruntfile.js, index.html, and various template files.
yeomanyeoman-generatorangulargeneratortypescript
cgross/angular-notify
Apr 2013 - Jan 2017
Minimalistic and extensible notification service for Angular.
Contributions:2 releases, 22 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 9 months
angular-librarynotification-servicenotificationsnotificationminimalistic
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