Chris Reynolds
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Reynolds is a seasoned WordPress engineer and developer advocate with 15 years building and improving digital experience platforms, currently serving as Interim President of The WP Community Collective and Senior Developer Advocate at Pantheon. He blends hands-on CMS engineering—spanning plugins, themes, and platform integrations—with developer relations work that includes product testing as "customer zero," GitHub Actions automation, and community-facing events and content. His background includes leading CMS platform teams at Pantheon, contributing to enterprise DXP projects at Altis and Human Made, and co-founding Museum Themes and Arcane Palette. An active open-source contributor, he has improved tooling like the CMB2 snippet library and built features for minimalist projects such as Dropplets, demonstrating attention to developer ergonomics and front-to-back craftsmanship. Outside of work he channels creativity into music and tabletop gaming, a reminder that his approach to engineering values collaboration, storytelling, and long-term maintainability.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Creative Arts in the Digital Revolution, B.A., Creative Arts in the Digital Revolution at University of RedlandsUniversity of East AngliaCity College of San Francisco
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
css10
wordpress10
markdown10
snips10
snippet10
cmb210
php10
markdown-it10
blog-engine10
sni10
html9
front-end-development8
visual-studio-code6
pantheon6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CMB2/CMB2-Snippet-Library
Nov 2015 - Nov 2018
CMB2 Code Snippet Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris focused on enhancing the CMB2 snippet library by adding a custom field type for selecting multiple options. They implemented the `select_multiple` field type, including the necessary HTML rendering and sanitization functions. Further development involved fixing a bug related to using `selected` with an array of values and refining the field's behavior. Finally, they added and refined snippets relating to adding CMB2 fields in the WordPress publish box.
cmb2snippetsnippetsphpsnippets-library
johnroper100/dropplets
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Welcome to an easier way to blog - A minimalist markdown blogging platform.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and aesthetics of the blogging platform. Their contributions included adding responsive image scaling using CSS, refactoring Markdown parsing for improved intro display, and implementing a custom templating system. Additionally, the user styled code blocks and added features such as curly quote and strikethrough support to improve typography.
reactminimalistphpblog-engineblogging
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