Chris Smola
Senior Engineer II (Frontend-Strong) At Recurly
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolChris Smola is a Senior Engineer with 12 years of hands-on web development experience, currently focused on frontend-driven full-stack work at Recurly with React, Angular, Ruby, and Go. He excels at design systems, optimization, and debugging, and enjoys organizing projects and mentoring junior engineers to raise team craftsmanship. Comfortable across build tooling and deployment (Webpack, Babel, Docker, CI systems, AWS), he pairs modern JS expertise with legacy-platform fluency from PHP and Rails. A former secondary mathematics teacher, he brings strong analytical rigor and a taste for clear processes and user-story-driven development. Based in Indianapolis, he blends practical engineering with a genuine enthusiasm for teaching and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Electives focused in programming, Diploma Electives focused in programming at Lawrence North High SchoolBS Secondary Mathematics Education, BS Secondary Mathematics Education at Ball State University
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Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
testing10
swagger10
oas10
isolation10
openapi10
swagger-ui10
api10
html10
storybook-addon10
e2e-test10
svelte10
web-components10
frontend10
rest-api10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Smolations/lo-bash
Jun 2015 - Jul 2023
A slimmed-down version of the helpful functions in lo-dash (and maybe a few extra)--written in Bash. Bash scripters rejoice!
Contributions:4 PRs, 51 pushes, 7 branches in 8 years 1 month
helpfulshelldashbash
Smolations/astro_playground
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:49 commits, 25 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
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