Chris Hynes is a seasoned CTO and founder with 13+ years building high-performance SaaS for the vacation rental industry, leading OwnerRez from product to production. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering with product ownership—designing reliable PMS and channel management systems—and still contributes to front-end open-source projects like popular Bootstrap datepicker and multiselect plugins. His career spans entrepreneurial ventures and senior engineering roles at Newsweek, Network for Good, and Perot Systems, reflecting deep experience in architecture, integration, and agile delivery. Known for improving UX and accessibility, he has a knack for pragmatic enhancements (keyboard support, customizable date cells) that help real users. Based in Scottsdale, AZ, he pairs technical leadership with a history of shipping commercial components (SlickUpload) and mentoring teams to maintain quality at scale.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Electronics Engineering, Computer Science Electronics Engineering at Virginia Tech
AA Business Administration, AA Business Administration at American InterContinental University
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the datepicker component. They implemented features to allow customization of the content displayed within individual day cells, providing flexibility for advanced use cases. This involved modifications to the JavaScript code, documentation updates, and the addition of tests to ensure the new functionality behaved as expected. The contributions show a focus on improving the user experience and extending the capabilities of the datepicker.
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the development of a minimal blog engine. Their work included adding edit mode functionality, enabling users to modify posts, and integrating it with the existing UI. They also made adjustments to the existing code base, including bug fixes related to XHTML parsing and resource URL rewrites. Furthermore, the user modified the rendering of posts and admin panel components to align with the new edit mode.
razorblog-engineasp-net-core-mvc
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