Chris Roberson
Staff Frontend Engineer at Slack
Town of Webster, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Roberson is a Staff Frontend Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-volume web applications and rich interactive UIs, currently shaping platform interactivity at Slack. He blends deep client-side expertise (JavaScript, HTML/CSS, AS3) with server-side LAMP experience and a strong interest in web-focused software architecture. At Elastic he advanced both front-end components and back-end task management for widely used projects like Kibana and the Elastic UI Framework, contributing telemetry, retries, and meaningful test improvements. His background includes leading engineering at Zynga on social games and evolving complex frontend systems at Hudl and other firms, giving him a knack for user-centric, performant interfaces at scale. Based in Webster, NY, he pairs hands-on implementation with architectural thinking and a track record of improving observability and resilience in production systems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (35)
javascript10
back-end-development10
ui-components10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
jes10
css10
eui10
typescript10
kibana10
task-manager10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
jestjs10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
May 2017 - Oct 2021
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:570 reviews, 793 commits, 1617 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris focused on improving the actions and task manager functionality within the Kibana repository. They addressed failures in the Task Manager by implementing retry mechanisms and treating errors as successes in specific scenarios. Additionally, the user implemented telemetry for HTTP API calls and deprecated configurations, enhancing monitoring capabilities. Their work included writing and modifying unit tests for the changes and refactoring existing tests to improve quality.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
elastic/eui
Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
Elastic UI Framework 🙌
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 16 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the development and testing of UI components within the Elastic UI Framework (EUI). Their work involved creating new components, such as the index pattern wizard and various form elements. They also wrote tests for these components, including flexbox layouts and form controls, ensuring the quality and functionality of the EUI library. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to refactoring and ensuring a consistent user experience within the framework.
reactsasseuiui-frameworkelastic
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