Chris Houston
Managing Director at Vizioz - Umbraco CMS Development Specialists
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolChris Houston is an experienced digital and technology leader with over 20 years building and scaling web, mobile and enterprise CMS platforms, currently leading FYIN’s Umbraco practice as Managing Director of Umbricians. He founded and grew Vizioz into a transatlantic Umbraco/.NET specialist agency, successfully exiting to FYIN, and continues to architect and deliver large-scale Umbraco solutions for clients across industries. Hands-on across the stack, he combines product architecture, CI/CD and automated testing discipline with executive-level stakeholder management and team mentorship. An Umbraco Master and 2020 MVP, he also contributes to the OurUmbraco open-source project—improving release comparison features and modernizing client-side build processes. Based in Chapel Hill, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts (previously founding a serviced-office business) with deep technical delivery experience and a knack for turning complex digital requirements into scalable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
National Diploma, National Diploma at Farnborough College of TechnologyHND, HND at University of Plymouth
English, French
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Github Skills (13)
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razor-pages10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
github9
javascript9
back-end-development8
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
umbraco/OurUmbraco
Jun 2016 - Jan 2019
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 15 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris significantly contributed to the OurUmbraco project by implementing features related to release comparison and improving the user interface. They modified existing views and partials, added new functionality to display release information, and integrated with external services like YouTrack and GitHub for issue tracking. Furthermore, the user updated the client-side build process to fix security vulnerabilities. They also refactored the CSS build process, replacing deprecated plugins with newer and more efficient alternatives.
readingdancer/Umbraco-CMS
Jan 2019 - Sep 2023
The simple, flexible and friendly ASP.NET CMS used by more than 400.000 websites
Contributions:16 pushes, 21 branches in 4 years 8 months
cmsasp-net-mvcaspasp-net-core-mvcasp-net
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