Chris Mccord
Owner at McCord Appraisal
Kansas City, Kansas, United States
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Top expert inElixir and Erlang Web Development
Chris Mccord is an experienced software engineer and long-time open-source contributor based in Kansas City with 15 years building scalable web systems and distributed features. As owner of McCord Appraisal and a prolific contributor to the Elixir/Phoenix ecosystem, he has driven backend architecture, real-time features, and tooling improvements across high-profile projects like Phoenix, Phoenix LiveView, Plug, Ecto, and the Elixir language itself. He spans full-stack work—from frontend LiveView and real-time Rails partials to deep backend changes in PubSub, Presence, and Ethereum indexing—often improving developer ergonomics and testability. Chris has a knack for pragmatic refactors and subtle API design shifts (for example, enhancing parsers, form handling, and sandboxed testing) that reduce cognitive load for downstream users. His contributions show a consistent focus on reliability, observability, and real-time interactions at production scale. Trained originally in animal science, he brings an uncommon blend of analytical rigor and long-term entrepreneurial perspective to engineering problems.
15 years of coding experience
BS, Animal Science, BS, Animal Science at Kansas State University
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elixir
top-1%
websocket
top-5%
phoenix-framework
top-1%
Github Skills (68)
e2e-testing10
dashboard10
mixing10
web-application10
mixnet10
testing10
authentication10
render10
mixture10
file-upload10
e2e10
web-development10
backend10
ruby-on-rails10
apache-phoenix10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
phoenixframework/phoenix
Jan 2014 - Jan 2023
Peace of mind from prototype to production
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 55 reviews, 2521 commits in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily refactor and enhance core components, such as logging in the Phoenix framework. Their work involved refactoring log options into private fields and integrating these changes across multiple files, including tests, logger modules, and socket implementations. Additionally, the user fixed a test race condition. The commits point towards a focus on the framework's backend.
realtimepeacephoenix-frameworkelixirprototype
fly-apps/live_beats
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 179 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily worked on implementing and improving the LiveBeats web application, as shown by the addition of features like GitHub login, user profile settings, and functionalities related to media playback and song uploads. Their contributions span both the frontend and backend of the application with changes to the layout and the server-side for dealing with media files and user sessions. Furthermore, the user focused on the integration of presence and improved the code related to handling file uploads.
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