Chris Pauley
Freelance Design, DevOps Consulting, Open Source at Self-employed
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Pauley is a versatile freelance designer and DevOps consultant with 11 years of experience building production-ready infrastructure, developer workflows, and polished web and brand designs. He blends hands-on cloud and IaC expertise—deploying Vault, Keycloak, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps pipelines at Stanford and in client engagements—with frontend chops in React and web design for WordPress and custom sites. Chris modernized Python package workflows and tooling for font design (WordSiv), introducing type-checked, well-documented, CI-driven practices that improved performance and test coverage. He contributed UI improvements to a popular open-source Vault-UI React project, focusing on usability details like breadcrumb behavior and JSON diff preferences. Equally comfortable sketching packaging concepts or automating complex build and CI/CD systems, he brings a rare mix of visual design sensibility and systems-level engineering. Based in California, he pairs a formal engineering background (MS Computer Engineering) with postgraduate type design training to solve problems that require both technical rigor and aesthetic judgement.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at California State University-ChicoSan José State UniversityPostgraduate Certificate Program in Type Design, Type Design, Postgraduate Certificate Program in Type Design, Type Design at Type West at Letterform Archive
English
Github Skills (8)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
devops5
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
djenriquez/vault-ui
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Vault-UI — A beautiful UI to manage your Vault, written in React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the user interface and adding new features to the Vault-UI project. Their contributions included enhancing the breadcrumb style, adding a "copy path" button, and fixing display issues with breadcrumbs. They also addressed a bug related to empty catch statements and incorporated user preferences for JSON diff annotations. The user worked with React components and local storage to implement these changes.
reactvaulthashicorpvault-uibeautiful-ui
tallpauley/my-config
Aug 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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