Chris Nielsen
Architect Tech Lead at Arke
Snellville, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Nielsen is an architect and tech lead with 13 years of professional coding experience, currently guiding architecture and delivery at Arke while also serving as development team lead and consultant. He has a proven track record of building large-scale products from the ground up and shaping engineering practices—introducing style guidelines, source-control workflows, and agile structures that supported 40+ developers at Connect Healthcare. A pragmatic full-stack thinker, Chris emphasizes maintainable, performant code (evidenced by thoughtful cleanups to the popular bootstrap-select jQuery plugin) and consistently moves teams toward better engineering hygiene. Based in Snellville, GA, he blends technical depth with leadership instincts honed over a decade-plus of hands-on development and decision-making.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Management Information Systems, General at Georgia Southern University
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
bootstra10
ui-design10
bootstrap10
jquery10
select29
multiselect9
selectbox9
ux-design9
select-all9
dropdown8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
snapappointments/bootstrap-select
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
:rocket: The jQuery plugin that brings select elements into the 21st century with intuitive multiselection, searching, and much more.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the `bootstrap-select` jQuery plugin by primarily focusing on code cleanup and optimization. Their work involved removing unused function parameters and variables, as well as refactoring the code to use strict equality. These changes suggest a focus on improving code maintainability and potentially performance by removing redundancy and adhering to best practices. The commits demonstrate a good understanding of the existing codebase and a commitment to quality.
jqueryelementsjavascriptintuitiverocket
altearius/cs-gen
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:10 releases, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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