Chris Krycho
Staff Software Engineer at Vanta
Monument, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolChris Krycho is a Staff Software Engineer with 13+ years of experience leading TypeScript and web-framework migrations, developer productivity efforts, and open-source tooling work. He blends full‑stack and systems-level expertise—from avionics and computational models to modern front-end frameworks—while focusing on developer experience, code quality, and ethical software practices. At LinkedIn he drove company-wide TypeScript adoption and resolved hard technical blockers; he’s co‑authored and maintained chapters in The Rust Programming Language and contributed to prominent projects like Volta, Ember, and rust-lang. Chris prefers mission-driven products that acknowledge technology’s limits and champions maintainability over rushed delivery, pairing a physicist’s rigor with a theologian’s reflective sensibility. Based in Monument, Colorado, he balances technical leadership with hands-on contributions across front-end, back-end, and language/tooling ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Leadership Marriage & Family Studies, Leadership Marriage & Family Studies at Focus Leadership InstituteMaster of Divinity (M.Div.) Christian Ministry, Master of Divinity (M.Div.) Christian Ministry at Southeastern Baptist Theological SeminarySand Creek High SchoolBachelor Physics, Bachelor Physics at University of Oklahoma
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Github Skills (55)
asynchronous10
javascript10
python10
async10
testing10
css10
responsive-design10
typescript10
test-framework10
type-definition10
refactor10
emberjs10
mdbook10
qunit10
performance-optimization10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
volta-cli/volta
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. ⚡
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:136 reviews, 273 commits, 352 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily focused on refactoring and modernizing the Volta CLI codebase, specifically related to updating dependencies and migrating to Rust 2018 idioms. They made significant changes to the import statements, streamlining serde macro imports and making the code more forward-compatible with newer Rust versions. The user also updated the codebase to use `node-semver` crate for semantic versioning, and rewrote the `notion fetch` command with `StructOpt`.
toolchainsjavascriptpackage-managernodejsas-code
emberjs/ember-qunit
Apr 2016 - Dec 2022
QUnit test helpers for Ember
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 13 reviews, 42 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the Ember.js library. They added test helpers, including the `skip` function, and modernized existing test functions. Furthermore, the user adapted the project to support newer Ember versions and deprecated older ones, updating the configuration file to reflect the changes. They also introduced native TypeScript types, integrated type tests, and configured the CI to validate these types.
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