Chris Herring
Principal Engineer at Marmalade
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorChris Herring is a Principal Engineer based in Sydney with 17 years designing and delivering Ruby on Rails web applications and services. He has progressed from freelance developer to technical lead roles at organisations like SiteMinder and Scentre Group, and now shapes architecture and delivery at Marmalade. Equally comfortable as a hands-on engineer and team leader, he runs his own Ruby consultancy alongside senior engineering roles, which keeps him close to both product delivery and code-level craft. His work focuses on reliable web platforms and developer productivity, with a pragmatic bias for shipping maintainable systems. Though primarily Rails-focused, his long career shows adaptability across startups and enterprise environments, often stepping into technical leadership when projects scale. Colleagues know him for steady, production-minded engineering rather than flashy experiments.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
5,496reputation
569kreached
128answers
10questions
ruby
top-5%
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (35)
ruby9
mongoid9
ruby-on-rails9
mongodb9
mongodb-driver9
object-mapper8
grails8
orm-framework8
mapper7
connections7
authentication7
eventmachine7
orm7
ruby-object-mapper7
activerecord6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cherring/connection_ninja
Jun 2009 - Nov 2013
Contributions:32 commits in 4 years 6 months
database-connectionsmultiple-database-connectionsdatabaseconnectionsmultiple-database
cherring/vibrant-ink
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 24 days
atominkvibrantatom-editor
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