Chris Mcgrath
Senior Software Engineer at Grant Street Group
Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolChris Mcgrath is a Senior Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building Microsoft .NET applications and a decade of recent professional experience driving backend systems, data migrations, and complex SQL Server transformations. He has led major projects across nonprofit and financial sectors—designing volunteer screening and child check-in systems at Willow Creek and contributing to high-throughput loyalty services at Epsilon—demonstrating both architectural vision and attention to operational detail. A pragmatic problem-solver, Chris enjoys tackling thorny data challenges and refactoring legacy code, and he has contributed backend fixes and feature enhancements to the widely used open-source Rock church management system. He pairs deep technical skills with strong communication and user empathy, honed by years as a performer and volunteer pastor, which helps him translate business needs into elegant solutions. Eager to grow, he’s targeting roles that expand into cloud deployment, microservices, CI/CD and new languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Architecture, Computer Science, Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (20)
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database-design9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SparkDevNetwork/Rock
May 2016 - Jul 2020
An open source CMS, Relationship Management System (RMS) and Church Management System (ChMS) all rolled into one.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 54 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Rock open-source CMS, RMS, and ChMS system. They focused on fixing and improving existing code functionality, specifically with age calculations, email sending display names, and account summary displays within contribution statements. Additionally, they added features like payment detail attributes and improvements to the batch detail block. They also demonstrated experience refactoring code by refactoring currency and number boxes.
cmsc-sharpchmsrock-rms
WillowCreekCC/Rock
Oct 2016 - Jul 2020
An open source CMS, Relationship Management System (RMS) and Church Management System (ChMS) all rolled into one.
Contributions:50 pushes, 64 branches in 3 years 9 months
cms
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