Chris Missal
Solutions Architect at Lee Enterprises
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChris Missal is a Solutions Architect with 17 years of experience designing and delivering Microsoft-stack web applications and cloud solutions from Austin, Texas. He blends hands-on .NET and Azure development with leadership roles across startups and enterprises—spanning positions from senior developer and tech lead to director-level consulting. Chris has a strong track record of practical open-source contributions, touching both back-end integrations (e.g., GitHub/Dropbox OAuth work in the popular Dillinger markdown editor) and front-end improvements for community projects like up-for-grabs.net. He’s comfortable translating product needs into clean APIs, scalable architectures, and maintainable code, and has repeatedly helped teams modernize platforms and improve delivery. Quietly, he pairs engineering depth with a knack for UX polish and developer-friendly tooling that keeps systems both robust and approachable.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, Computer Programming, AAS, Computer Programming at Kirkwood Community College
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Github contributions (5)
WebApiContrib/WebAPIContrib
Mar 2012 - Mar 2015
Community Contributions for ASP.NET Web API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the ASP.NET Web API community contributions by adding new features and fixing existing ones. Their work included updating project paths, adding extension classes for `HttpResponseMessage`, and correcting the `OkResponse` Location per specification. The user also implemented a console output handler for self-hosting and refactored existing tests to improve their clarity. They also added support for ETag handling and integrated StructureMap for dependency injection.
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up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net
Nov 2013 - Sep 2017
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Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 9 PRs, 17 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the user interface and content presentation of the "up-for-grabs.net" project. They added a "popular tags" section and modified the existing project listing layout to enhance readability. The user also addressed styling issues, including font sizes and spacing, while also refactoring the HTML structure for improved layout. Additionally, they updated the JavaScript to support the new features.
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