Chris Mcknight
Designer, Developer, & Team Catalyst
Conway, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolChris Mcknight is a multidisciplinary designer-developer and team catalyst with 14 years building web apps, enterprise EHR products, and physical designs from his base in Conway, New Hampshire. He blends user-centered UX/UI craft, design systems, and hands-on front-end and infrastructure work—contributing TypeScript, Python, and C# improvements to open-source projects like AWS CDK and react-to-print. Chris has led company-wide design system initiatives and driven product discovery and persona research that measurably improved enterprise workflows. Comfortable shipping production code and infrastructure changes, he has also improved CI, build pipelines, and cloud flexibility (including EKS and Helm support) in well-known repos. His background in furniture design and fabrication surfaces in a pragmatic prototyping mindset that favors tangible, testable solutions. Colleagues describe him as a practical collaborator who mentors teams to turn bold ideas into polished, usable products.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Furniture Design, BFA, Furniture Design at Savannah College of Art and DesignGould Academy
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Github Skills (56)
ec10
cli10
git10
amazon-eks10
javascript10
github10
back-end-development10
plugin-development10
typescript10
git-repository10
rails10
cloud-infrastructure10
iks10
cicd10
amazon-ec210
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
infinitered/gluegun
Mar 2018 - Apr 2020
A delightful toolkit for building TypeScript-powered command-line apps.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the integration tests and build process of the project. Their commits show a transition from an older testing system to yarn. They also integrated Azure Pipelines configuration, indicating an effort to set up Windows CI testing. Additionally, the user corrected file formatting.
javascripttoolkitnodejscommand-linetypescript
aws/aws-cdk
Dec 2019 - Dec 2021
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 9 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for AWS infrastructure. They contributed to the `ec2` module by adding and fixing interface endpoints for various AWS services, specifically focusing on the CODEBUILD and REKOGNITION services, and added support for the Transcribe and Step Functions endpoints. They also addressed infrastructure issues by fixing an invalid role in the Batch service, and corrected invalid ARN partitions in the CloudTrail service for GovCloud. Furthermore, the user implemented a feature to install helm charts using assets and provided support for specifying subnets in the Pinger functionality within the EKS module, improving the flexibility of the CDK.
development-kitaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructurecloud-development
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