Chris Sainty
Principal Software Engineer at Storytel
Australia
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Top SchoolChris Sainty is a Principal Software Engineer based in Australia with over 25 years in software and a decade in senior engineering roles, currently focusing on reducing structural debt and scaling developer productivity at Storytel. He blends hands-on engineering with leadership experience—from cloud architecting large GCP migrations to managing multiple teams—favoring pragmatic, service-oriented solutions and developer-first platforms. A former 5x Microsoft MVP, author, speaker and active open-source contributor, he’s known in the Blazor community for meaningful work on projects like Blazored.Modal, improving component flexibility, styling and cross-version support. Chris consistently delivers measurable impact (for example cutting response times by up to 90% in legacy systems) and prefers collaborative, transparent governance over top-down directives. His background spans full-stack web, Kubernetes, CI/CD and performance optimization, and he often returns to coding because he enjoys solving thorny engineering problems directly.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at University of Newcastle
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (16)
modal-windows10
blazor10
modal-dialog10
csharp10
modals10
dotnet-core10
blazor-server10
asp-net-core9
model-view-controller9
html9
netcore9
razor6
asp-net6
asp-net-mvc6
onchange6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Blazored/Modal
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
A powerful and customizable modal implementation for Blazor applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 67 reviews, 166 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the Blazored Modal project by implementing features and refactoring the code. The commits show the addition of the ability to pass parameters to modal components, which enhances the flexibility of the modal. Further work included upgrading the project to different Blazor versions and improving the user's ability to control the modal's behavior. The user also restructured the markup and overhauled the styling, indicating a focus on both functionality and visual presentation.
razorrazor-componentsmodalblazor-webassemblyblazor
chrissainty/moneydaze
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 8 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 months
dotnetblazor-webassemblyblazorcsharpmicrosoft
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