Chris Vannoy
Founder at Indy Hackers
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolChris Vannoy is a founder and seasoned software leader with 18 years of experience building product teams, shipping Ruby-driven systems, and advising startups as a fractional CTO/CPO. Based in Indianapolis, he blends hands-on engineering (two decades as a Rubyist and contributions to projects like the Geokit gem) with people-first management, having scaled teams through product launches, acquisitions, and SOC 2/GDPR compliance. He has led engineering and product at startups and agencies—driving a 4x revenue lift via core integration frameworks and shipping enduring client tools like a Mac Outlook agent still in use today. As founder of Axiomatic Consulting and former director roles at Sigstr and Terminus, he helps CEOs demystify engineering while improving onboarding, remote processes, and delivery safety. He also serves his local tech community as a board member of Indy Hackers, combining practitioner experience with community building. Notably, his background in both technical instruction and hands-on bug fixes gives him a rare mix of mentorship, product intuition, and operational detail-focus.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Chemical Engineering then Journalism, Chemical Engineering then Journalism at West Virginia UniversityGlenville State University
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Github Skills (6)
geocoding10
ruby10
testing9
google-maps-api9
jpeg6
exif6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
geokit/geokit
Feb 2009 - Feb 2009
Official Geokit Gem. Geokit gem provides geocoding and distance/heading calculations. Pair with the geokit-rails plugin for full-fledged location-based app functionality.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the `geokit/geokit` repository by fixing bugs and making improvements to the Google reverse geocoding functionality. Their work involved modifying the `geokit/geocoders.rb` file to handle different HTTP status codes and refine readability. They also made minor cleanup changes and addressed issues in the testing suite, specifically in `test/test_google_reverse_geocoder.rb` and `test/test_ipgeocoder.rb`. These contributions focused on ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the geocoding service.
geospatialheadingcalculationsrailsgeocoding
tiy-indy-bee-ror-jan17/course_notes
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:65 commits, 38 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 months
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