Chris Odicho
Senior Frontend Developer at DISCO
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Odicho is a Senior Frontend Developer based in Melbourne with 10 years’ experience building web and mobile products for startups and scale-ups. He combines hands-on frontend engineering with leadership—architecting greenfield apps, maintaining strict test coverage, and creating white‑label publishing pipelines. Chris has repeatedly improved CI and test processes (including taking coverage from 0% to ~15% and holding 100% in new apps) and migrated legacy mobile stacks to modern React Native architectures. He excels at translating product goals into pragmatic technical plans, mentoring engineers, and working closely with cross-functional teams. Outside of work he channels his tinkering mindset into home automation projects and BBQ experiments, reflecting a practical, iterative approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Information Technology (Network Security), Associate's degree Information Technology (Network Security) at NMITBachelor's degree Information Technology (Network Security), Bachelor's degree Information Technology (Network Security) at Melbourne Polytechnic
Github Skills (22)
javascript9
react9
documentation9
scraper7
node-tool7
react-native-library6
nodejs6
scrape6
transform5
native-library5
css4
android3
markdown3
react-native3
typescript3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chrisodicho/article-archiver
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
Node tool to scrape and transform articles into Markdown for local reading
Contributions:1 release, 85 commits, 3 PRs in 6 months
node-toolscrapetransformnodejsscraper
chrisodicho/jest-badges-action
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Github action generating coverage badges using jest and pushing them to the repo
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 1 tag in 8 months
jestpushingcoverage-badgescoveragebadges
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