Chris Saylor
Information Technology Consultant
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Saylor is an Information Technology Consultant and seasoned technology leader with 17+ years of hands-on engineering and team-building experience, and over two decades working at the intersection of software and operations. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, full-stack web development, and database design, and has repeatedly translated business goals into reliable systems for the Wine & Spirits industry as CTO at Vintage Wine Estates and Cameron Hughes Wine. Chris has co-founded multiple Rails-focused startups and consultancies, led engineering teams to adopt XP/TDD practices, and built production systems spanning deployment tooling, CMS/social platforms, and eCommerce fraud reduction. Based in San Francisco, he brings deep systems and DevOps experience from roles like systems administrator at Moniker and engineer at Doximity, plus a chemistry/mathematics background that informs a pragmatic, data-oriented approach to problem solving. Less obvious: he has a track record of automating high-volume domain and deployment workflows with Ruby, turning operational complexity into repeatable code.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Chemistry Mathematics, B.S. Chemistry Mathematics at Georgetown CollegeDatabase design Visual Basic Networking, Database design Visual Basic Networking at University of Cincinnati
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Github Skills (27)
usps8
authentication8
dhl8
fedex8
ups7
devise7
activerecord6
imagemagick6
macos6
spree6
routes6
ruby-on-rails6
user-authentication6
rails6
ruby6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cwsaylor/rails-quickstart
Aug 2010 - Apr 2017
Contributions:145 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
cwsaylor/dotfiles
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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