Chris Kottom
Independent Consultant at Self-Employed
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolChris Kottom is an independent consultant and architect with 17+ years building full-lifecycle information systems across startups, banks, telecoms, and marketplaces, now based in Prague. He blends hands-on engineering (Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Java, Perl, SQL) with enterprise architecture and pragmatic product thinking—equally comfortable writing production code or defining integration standards for large organizations. As former CTO of Rewardful and long-time self-employed developer, he has deep experience shipping web apps, complex backend integrations, and IT outsourcing for both small businesses and corporate clients. Chris is authoring The Minitest Cookbook, signaling a continued commitment to Ruby tooling and developer experience. He’s drawn to entrepreneurial, game-changing ventures and prefers collaborating with small, passionate teams where technical depth meets business impact.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., mathematics, liberal arts, B.A., mathematics, liberal arts at Carleton College
English, Czech
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Github Skills (33)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
minitest8
application-management8
facilities8
test-coverage8
cookbook8
testing8
coverage7
letter7
test-unit6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chriskottom/minitest_cookbook_source
Mar 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:75 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
minitestcookbooksample-projects
chriskottom/fbo
Oct 2013 - Nov 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 4 pushes, 2 comments in 4 years 1 month
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