Chris Haynes is a Senior Systems Engineer with 13 years’ experience blending aerospace engineering, high-performance scientific computing and web-focused front-end development. He has led fuel-system modelling for JSF variants, developed prognostics and big-data analysis toolsets for BAE Systems, and completed a PhD in astrophysics using large-scale MPI particle simulations to study solar wind turbulence. Comfortable across Matlab, C++ and web technologies, he contributes to open-source UI tooling—improving accessibility and tests for the popular Shoelace component library—and brings a pragmatic, V&V-driven approach to complex physical and software systems. Based in West Lancashire, he thrives on difficult problems that sit at the intersection of physical modelling, data analytics and performant software.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Physics with Space Technology (Honours) - Included an industrial placement year, Physical Sciences, 1st Class, Physics with Space Technology (Honours) - Included an industrial placement year, Physical Sciences, 1st Class at The University of Salford
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics - Simulations of Electron Kinetics in Solar Wind Turbulence, PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics - Simulations of Electron Kinetics in Solar Wind Turbulence, PhD at Queen Mary University of London
A collection of professionally designed, every day UI components built on Web standards. SHOELACE IS BECOMING WEB AWESOME 👇👇👇
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:39 commits, 7 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the development of user interface (UI) components for the Shoelace project. Their work involved fixing bugs and implementing enhancements related to form controls, dropdowns, dialogs, drawers, and tab groups. They refactored the code to prevent ID clashes and improve the accessibility of the components. The user also added comprehensive end-to-end (e2e) tests for several of the UI components, ensuring the project's quality and reliability.
Contributions:49 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
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