Chris Hughs
Frontend Developer at pactx
Greater Sacramento United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Hughs is a frontend developer with 13 years of professional experience and 3+ years focused on building high-performance, accessible Shopify stores and themes. He specializes in custom sections, reusable components, migrations to Shopify Online Store 2.0, and behind-the-scenes improvements like speed optimization, SEO, and accessibility compliance. At pactx he shipped 20+ components and led full-site redesigns while managing GitHub-based deployments across staging and production. A pragmatic problem-solver, Chris pairs frontend craft with system-level familiarity—his open-source work includes contributions to Termux tooling and OpenGL samples, showing comfort with low-level tooling and cross-platform issues. His five-plus years of nomadic travel inform a collaborative, adaptable approach to client work and international customer empathy. Based in Greater Sacramento, he brings a mix of performance-driven engineering, UX sensibility, and hands-on e-commerce operations to niche Shopify projects.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics at University of Nevada-Reno
Github Skills (21)
shader10
multiplatform10
package-management10
python10
scripting10
cross-platform10
glsl10
termux10
script10
graphics-programming10
sh10
shell10
opengl10
installer9
installers9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Gameye98/Lazymux
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
termux tool installer
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the development of the Lazymux tool, a termux tool installer. Their work involved adding new categories of tools, including Malware Analysis, Compiler/Interpreter, and Social Engineering Tools, significantly expanding the tool's functionality. They also updated existing tools within the installer, updated supporting files, and refined the installation process. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of system administration and package management within the Termux environment.
termuxinstallerlinuxtermux-tool
g-truc/ogl-samples
Dec 2012 - Feb 2013
The OpenGL Samples Pack
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the OpenGL samples pack, with a focus on updating and fixing issues related to Intel driver support. Their commits include modifications to vertex and fragment shaders, as well as the addition of checks for shader and program validation. Furthermore, they addressed cross-platform build issues and optimized the samples for improved rendering performance on various hardware configurations, demonstrating proficiency in OpenGL development.
openglpack
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