Chris Thorn
Lead Engineer at Relevant Healthcare
Greater Jackson Area United States
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Top SchoolChris Thorn is a Lead Engineer with 16 years of experience building reliable, usable software and currently driving engineering at Relevant Healthcare. He combines hands-on backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the popular houndci/hound code-review service—with a track record of mentoring and growing teams at companies like Prime Trust and thoughtbot. Chris is comfortable across stacks (Ruby, Postgres, background jobs, and traditional enterprise stacks) and has helped stabilize systems through SRE collaboration and improved monitoring. After a reflective sabbatical he returned with clearer values around product fit and team health, and he focuses on shipping pragmatic solutions that balance quality, usability, and developer experience.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Software Engineering, BS, Software Engineering at Mississippi State University
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Github Skills (20)
ruby-rails10
rails10
code-review10
ruby10
github-api10
loops9
rspec9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
continuous-integration8
i18n-node7
i18n-js7
i18next7
nested6
galery6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
houndci/hound
Apr 2015 - May 2017
Automated code review for GitHub pull requests.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 135 PRs, 319 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions focused on enhancing the HoundCI platform's backend functionality, specifically related to code review processes. They implemented features for improved violation reporting, including the ability to include violation counts in GitHub status messages. The user added functionality to log HTTP requests to GitHub, improving debugging capabilities, and introduced configuration options, such as failing a build on violations. Furthermore, they refactored and improved the build process, setting up various tests to ensure successful completion.
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thorncp/fsck
Dec 2010 - Jul 2013
Contributions:42 commits in 2 years 7 months
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