Chris Mcgovern
Jackson, Wyoming, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Mcgovern is a full-stack software engineer with 14 years of experience building data-driven UIs and backend systems, and a cofounder-level pedigree from Plotly where he contributed to flagship projects like plotly.py and Dash. He blends front-end React work (Graph, Slider components, UI refinements) with backend JSON/streaming engineering across Python, R, MATLAB and JavaScript ecosystems, demonstrating rare cross-language fluency in visualization tooling. His background spans customer-facing roles in fintech and product teams, giving him a practical edge in converting business requirements into robust integrations and user-focused features. Based in Jackson, Wyoming, he pairs hands-on implementation skills with a community mindset—authoring Dash and contributing recipes, demos, and testing improvements that help others ship interactive analytics faster. An underappreciated strength is his repeated work on JSON encoding and streaming support across multiple language bindings, which consistently improved interoperability for Plotly’s multi-platform users.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (59)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
plotly/falcon
May 2016 - Apr 2020
Free, open-source SQL client for Windows and Mac 🦅
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 410 commits, 71 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the front-end UI, backend configurations and core components of the application. They refactored the user interface, integrated new features, and improved the user experience. The user worked extensively with React components, CSS styling, and database connectors. The user also contributed to core back-end functionality using SQL, REST, and other libraries and services.
sql-serverelectronmysqlredshiftwindows
plotly/dash-recipes
Jul 2017 - Sep 2018
A collection of scripts and examples created while answering questions from the greater Dash community
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 6 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed multiple examples and scripts to the Dash recipes repository, showcasing skills in building interactive data visualization applications. They developed several Dash applications demonstrating features like animation, asynchronous tasks, multi-page navigation, and error handling. The user implemented integrations with external CSS and a database, further expanding the repository's utility for users.
pythondashdata-scienceplotly-dashplotly
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