Chris Sells
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolChris Sells is a veteran software leader and developer advocate with 30+ years building developer tools, frameworks and ecosystems, currently consulting to help companies integrate modern AI into their platforms. He has led product and engineering organizations at Google, Meta and Sourcegraph, shipped major releases for Flutter and Jetpack, and scaled product teams while driving PLG and enterprise revenue. A hands-on polyglot engineer (C/C++, Java/Kotlin, C#/.NET, JavaScript, Dart/Flutter) he still contributes to open-source—adding Dart support and complex request handling to the well-known curlconverter project. Known for bringing customers into product decisions, he combines architecture, mentoring and people leadership to grow high-performing teams. An experienced speaker and author of a dozen books, he pairs public evangelism with deep technical delivery and ecosystem strategy. Based in Portland, he’s also a MENSA member and delights in practical developer experience details that often get overlooked.
12 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Software Engineering at Oregon Health & Science UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Minnesota
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Github Skills (7)
dart10
curl10
testing9
javascript9
api-design8
flutter6
sprite6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
curlconverter/curlconverter
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
Transpile curl commands into Python, JavaScript and 27 other languages
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the addition of Dart language support to the curlconverter project. Their work involved creating Dart code generation functionality, including support for DELETE requests, basic authentication, and complex URL parameters. They also implemented and refactored existing code, including the addition of test fixtures and modifications to the utility functions. The user's contributions enhanced the project's capabilities by expanding its language support to include Dart.
pythonparsertextlintmatlabcurl-commands
csells/dart_json_fun
May 2019 - Feb 2022
Fun with non-trivial JSON serialization/deserialization in Dart
Contributions:9 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
json-serializationdeserializationdart2dartserialization
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