Chris Haines
Senior Software Engineer at Braze
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChris Haines is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 16 years building scalable Python-backed services, APIs, and subscription platforms for companies from startups to enterprise. Currently at Braze, he combines a pragmatic focus on quality with hands-on engineering and prior leadership as VP/Director of Engineering at Lot18, where he grew teams and integrated major partners like HelloFresh and the New York Times into white-label systems. His open-source contributions to widely used Python projects such as Arrow and Flask-Security show a knack for practical library improvements and internationalization. Equally comfortable managing AWS infrastructure and refining developer-facing libraries, he brings a bias for shipping durable solutions and improving developer ergonomics.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
English, French
Github Skills (19)
datetime10
pytest10
python10
testing10
date-format10
datetimes10
arrow-keys10
flask-ask10
security10
localization10
dates10
flask10
arrows10
arrow-js10
text-formatting9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pallets-eco/flask-security-3.0
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
Quick and simple security for Flask applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to enhancing the Flask-Security library. Their work included updating dependencies, making template paths configurable for improved customization, and modifying existing views. They also addressed minor code issues, such as removing an extraneous line and incorporating changes from a development branch. Overall, the user focused on improving the library's functionality and flexibility.
securityflaskpythonflask-extensions
arrow-py/arrow
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
🏹 Better dates & times for Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the `arrow-py/arrow` repository by implementing new features related to date and time formatting and parsing. Their work includes adding support for ordinal day formatting, parsing localized month names, and incorporating support for different locales such as Italian, Spanish, and French. The user's commits demonstrate a focus on enhancing the library's functionality and internationalization capabilities.
datetimepythontimesarrowtimestamp
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