Chris Wales
Lead Developer CTO at Hawkin Dynamics
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Wales is a Lead Developer and CTO based in Portland, Maine with 12 years of experience building product-focused web and full-stack systems. He moved from media and production roles into technology leadership, applying a strong product sensibility to team and architecture decisions while currently guiding engineering at Hawkin Dynamics. Chris has hands-on experience modernizing open-source projects—contributing Firebase v3 authentication and user-management updates to a popular React+Firebase library—demonstrating an ability to ship secure auth and integration work. Known for bridging creative production workflows and engineering, he excels at turning operational complexity into user-facing, maintainable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Applied Science Television Production, Associate of Applied Science Television Production at Brown CollegeBridgton AcademyWellesley High School
Github Skills (5)
authentication10
user-authentication10
javascript10
firebase10
react10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tylermcginnis/re-base
Jun 2016 - Jul 2018
:fire: A Relay inspired library for building React.js + Firebase applications. :fire:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:306 commits, 74 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily focused on updating the project to use Firebase v3 APIs and implementing new authentication methods. These changes included migrating code to support the new Firebase authentication, including authentication with passwords, OAuth, and custom tokens. They also refactored the code to integrate user management functionalities.
reactrelayfirebasereact-jsrelay-modern
qwales1/speedtest.net
Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 10 months
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