Chris Sinchok
Senior Developer at Pronto Computing
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolChris Sinchok is a Senior Developer based in Chicago with 13 years of experience building web, mobile, and DevOps solutions across media, commerce, and startup environments. He currently engineers at Pronto Computing and previously helped harden and scale The Onion’s platform—surviving real-world incidents like the Syrian Electronic Army attack while shipping products such as Clickhole. Comfortable across Django, iOS, WebSphere Commerce, and front-end audio/interaction work (including playful open-source contributions like fartscroll.js), he mixes pragmatic engineering with attention to reliability and user experience. Chris’s background includes securing e-commerce deployments, designing mobile-friendly sites, and creating automation for lab and deployment workflows—skills that make him equally at home fixing production incidents or prototyping quirky UI features.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Engineering, BS, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Toledo
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
lib10
audio-playback10
html10
integrate9
user-interface9
application-integration9
system-integration9
rabbitmq6
django-forms6
parsing6
python6
debian6
django6
django-celery6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
theonion/fartscroll.js
Apr 2013 - May 2013
You want fart noises as you scroll? We've got you covered.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 25 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the front-end functionality of the fartscroll.js library, as evidenced by the focus on audio playback and user interaction. The user implemented features such as handling multiple audio players, preventing choppy audio, and integrating the library with example HTML pages. Changes involved modifications to JavaScript code, integrating the library with HTML, and the addition of audio files.
noisesscroll
csinchok/chipy-fcc-presentation
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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