Chris Marstall
Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Marstall is a creator and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building product-driven web and mobile applications, from early micropayments at idealab! to principal engineering of industrial IoT apps at Digital Lumens. He combines full-stack fluency and product instincts—designing gesture-driven React Native UIs, D3 dataviz for large datasets, and backend systems that scale for demanding enterprise customers. As founder of tourfilter.com and creator of avant-fm.com, he has a track record of shipping consumer-facing services praised by Rolling Stone, Billboard and Wired. At the Boston Globe he launched GlobeLab and led Knight-funded innovation work with MIT’s Center for Civic Media, blending journalism, design and engineering. More recently he built an AI pipeline translating complex bioscience into accessible prose for The Kabuki Papers, experimenting across LLM providers to preserve scientific accuracy. An active contributor to open-source (notably Discourse), he moves easily between prototypes and production systems with an emphasis on clarity and impact.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
105reputation
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Github Skills (20)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
rails10
ruby10
postgresql9
custom-theme9
customizer9
ember9
forum9
customisation9
html8
apidoc8
api8
css7
react-native-ios6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse
May 2023 - Feb 2025
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 39 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributes to the Discourse platform, focusing on both front-end and back-end enhancements. Their work involves fixing bugs related to date-time input ranges and login redirects. Furthermore, the user implements new features like a JSON editor for theme settings and modifies tag descriptions to support links, showcasing their involvement across the application's various aspects. The user also refactors code related to invite expiration and adds functionality to manage invite data, indicating a good grasp of different platform components.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
marstall/shim
Jul 2011 - Feb 2012
Contributions:17 commits in 7 months
browsersimultaneouslybrowsersnode-jsjavascript
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