Chris Rose
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Rose is an experienced automation and developer-tools engineer based in Seattle with 15 years building pragmatic, developer-facing systems that often avoid cloud dependencies because they must run where cloud isn't an option. He brings deep proficiency in Python (with significant contributions to projects like Paramiko and Celery), plus expert-to-proficient skills in Perl, Java, C, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript. His work blends application and systems programming, configuration management, and software-defined networking, with a focus on eliminating repeat problems so teams never face the same issues twice. Chris is active in open source, improving stability and developer workflows across well-known libraries and tools, and he prefers asynchronous, list-based contact over typical recruiting channels.
15 years of coding experience
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
unit-testing10
ncurses10
lib10
pytest10
python10
ruff10
formatting10
formatter10
celery10
queuing10
magit10
emacs-lisp10
emacs10
formatters10
cryptography10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
hamcrest/PyHamcrest
Feb 2011 - Jan 2023
Hamcrest matchers for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 19 reviews, 241 commits in 12 years
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to adding support for Python 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 by modifying the setup.py file to include the necessary classifiers. Additionally, they implemented a has_property matcher and modified the isdict_containingentries test suite to be less sensitive. The contributions show a focus on ensuring the PyHamcrest library maintained compatibility with different Python versions.
pythonhamcrest-matchershamcrestmatcherspython3
paramiko/paramiko
Apr 2014 - May 2018
The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.
Role in this project:Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the paramiko library by addressing critical bugs and improving the codebase's maintainability. They fixed a regression in DSS key generation related to padding and signature verification failures. Further contributions included test and development dependency cleanup, syncing with Fabric, and introducing an SSHConfig dict to assist in type conversions. These commits demonstrate a focus on improving existing functionality and ensuring the library's stability.
pythonsshv2sshpython3protocol-library
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