Chris Montgomery
Lead Software Developer at Klein College of Media and Communication
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolChris Montgomery is a Lead Software Developer with 11 years of full-stack experience building web platforms for higher education and media organizations. Currently leading development at Temple University's Klein College, he combines hands-on engineering with team mentorship and a history of improving CMS workflows, performance, and editorial tools. His background at Spirited Media and Alley includes owning production systems, architecting membership and sponsored-content features, and modernizing infrastructure on AWS. An active contributor to Nix/Flake tooling (notably work on divnix/digga), he brings DevOps rigor alongside front-end and content-focused engineering. Based in Philadelphia, he blends a journalism-rooted products perspective with pragmatic open-source craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Journalism, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Journalism at Temple UniversityMultimedia, Multimedia at University of The ArtsInteractive Design, Interactive Design at The University of the Arts
Github Skills (11)
nix-flake10
nixos10
flake10
devops10
nix10
home-manager9
darwin9
docker8
dockers8
cicd7
nixpkgs7
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
divnix/digga
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
A flake utility library to craft shell-, home-, and hosts- environments.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & NixOS/Flake Specialist
DevOps Engineer & NixOS/Flake SpecialistContributions:30 reviews, 86 commits, 26 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the build, configuration, and deployment aspects of the `digga` project, a flake utility library. Their contributions included fixing flake initialization, reverting and adjusting devshell configurations, and adding necessary inputs and dependencies. They also implemented changes to accommodate darwin host support within the flake structure and refactored module exports for improved system-specific configurations. Moreover, the user updated the devshell to use nix 2.7 from the unstable channel and made several adjustments to streamline the build process and handle platform-specific configurations.
diggahome-managercraftdotfilesshell
kleinweb/php-coding-standards
Mar 2023 - Nov 2024
PHP coding standards rulesets used by the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University
Contributions:6 PRs, 44 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 8 months
phpcstemple-universitywordpress
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