Chris Laskey
Senior Software Engineer at Wonderschool
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChris Laskey is a product-focused Senior Software Engineer and founder with 14+ years of hands-on experience building and leading engineering teams across startups and enterprise settings, currently driving engineering at Wonderschool while leading his own consultancy, Evelion. He blends practical architecture and team leadership honed at IBM with startup agility, shipping resilient full-stack solutions and scaling delivery processes. Chris contributes to open-source front-end tooling—adding state persistence to a popular jQuery table plugin—highlighting attention to UX and long-lived maintenance. Based in Boston, he pairs technical depth with an uncommon humanities background in Ancient Greek and Philosophy, which informs his clear communication and thoughtful product instincts.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Ancient Civilizations (Ancient Greek), B.A., Ancient Civilizations (Ancient Greek) at Boston University
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Github Skills (17)
localstorage10
javascript10
jquery10
plugin-development10
front-end-development10
ubuntu9
cookie9
javascript-framework9
emberjs9
jenkins9
upstart6
hudson6
google-chrome-extension6
angularjs6
continuous-integration6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fooplugins/FooTable
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
jQuery plugin to make HTML tables responsive
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the development of a "Footable Memory" plugin for the "footable" jQuery plugin, designed to enhance the responsiveness of HTML tables. Their work focused on implementing local storage and cookie-based mechanisms to persist the table's state, including pagination, sorting, filtering, and expansion preferences, across page reloads. The user also addressed dependency checks, refactored the code to use localStorage as the primary storage engine, and added documentation.
jqueryjavascriptjquery-pluginhtml-tablesresponsive
chrislaskey/ink
Jul 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:93 commits, 2 PRs, 77 pushes in 3 months
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