Chris Jones
Software Architect at Publicis Hawkeye
Monroe, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolChris Jones is a Software Architect with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering large-scale, high-performance web applications. A self-taught full-stack developer based in Monroe, NC, he combines front-end and back-end mastery with deployment and ops expertise, favoring iterative, test-driven approaches. Chris is an active open-source contributor to notable PHP/Symfony projects—improving Doctrine MongoDB ODM, the DoctrineMongoDBBundle, and the FOSOAuthServerBundle—demonstrating deep familiarity with databases, authentication flows, and maintainable library design. He also brings practical DevOps experience, having enhanced Capifony deployment workflows and composer automation for Symfony apps. Known for clean, standards-compliant, well-tested code, he blends pragmatic engineering discipline with a continual curiosity for new tools and process improvements.
15 years of coding experience
Software Information Systems, Software Information Systems at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
English
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Github Skills (39)
capistrano10
doctrine10
schema-design10
mongodb-database10
schema-org10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
odm10
schema10
mongodb10
doctrine-odm10
composer10
index-management10
oauth10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
FriendsOfSymfony/FOSOAuthServerBundle
Mar 2012 - Apr 2012
A server side OAuth2 Bundle for Symfony
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 16 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the OAuth2 server bundle's functionality by addressing missing methods in `ManagerInterface` classes for ODM. They also refactored and cleaned up code, including adding a default `/authorize` controller. Further contributions involved addressing failures with Github access and preparing the codebase for CouchDB support. The user also added unit tests.
bundlephpsymfony-bundleserver-sideoauth2
everzet/capifony
May 2012 - Sep 2012
[UNMAINTAINED]
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the deployment and build process for the Capifony project, which is designed for deploying Symfony applications. They implemented enhancements to composer installation and update procedures, made the composer binary configurable and added functionality to tail application logs. Furthermore, the user made changes to deployment tasks by adding :roles and :except parameters, along with introducing the ability to update the assets_version in config.yml, demonstrating an understanding of the Capifony deployment lifecycle. These commits suggest a good understanding of Capistrano and Symfony related automation tasks.
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