Chris Mccord
Staff Software Engineer at Fly.io
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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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.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Wright State University
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Github Skills (70)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
phoenixframework/phoenix_pubsub
Nov 2015 - Apr 2022
Distributed PubSub and Presence platform for the Phoenix Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 146 commits, 89 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily involve modifications to the `phoenix_pubsub` library, focusing on the implementation of presence functionality. The code changes include the addition of features such as delta handling, gossip, transfer requests, and node status detection within the `Phoenix.Presence.Server` and `Phoenix.Presence.Tracker` modules. These modifications are related to distributed systems design and implementation within the Phoenix framework.
phoenix-frameworkelixirphoenixpubsubdistributed
chrismccord/render_sync
Apr 2013 - Dec 2015
Real-time Rails Partials
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:152 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the development of real-time Rails partials. They refactored the JavaScript code, introducing classes for handling updates, insertions, and removals. The user also updated the Rails view helpers and integrated support for Faye and Pusher pubsub clients, allowing for real-time functionality. Further contributions include updating model calls to support Rails 4.
railsrubypartialsreal-time
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