Chris Waring
Lead Product Designer Engineer at Protocol Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarChris Waring is a Lead Product Designer Engineer based in London with 13+ years building high-performance web2 and web3 applications for startups and projects that reach millions of users. He blends hands-on front-end engineering and product design—currently at Protocol Labs—while contributing to prominent open-source documentation for IPFS and Filecoin to improve developer UX and findability. Chris has a track record of technical leadership across roles from interim CTO to lead engineer, and he co-organised Container Camp for five years, growing its international footprint and securing major sponsor support. Known for pragmatic, design-led engineering, he helped scale community initiatives like Meteor London into flagship meetups, revealing a rare mix of product craft, community-building, and distributed-systems interest.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
markdown10
javascript10
filecoin10
vuepress10
markdown-it10
documentation10
front-end-development9
web-sitemap9
ipfs9
sitemap9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ipfs/ipfs-docs
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
📚IPFS documentation platform
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 268 commits, 126 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on the development of the IPFS documentation platform by modifying and adding configurations within the VuePress framework. Their contributions included setting up head meta tags, refactoring the configuration file, and reorganizing the sidebar navigation. The user also integrated various Markdown extensions to enhance content presentation and usability, with a focus on improving the overall documentation experience. These changes suggest an effort to improve the documentation's searchability and presentation.
ipfs-docsipfsbounties
filecoin-project/filecoin-docs
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Filecoin Docs
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:15 reviews, 222 commits, 131 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the documentation of the Filecoin project. Their commits involve modifying the VuePress configuration to incorporate plugins like sitemap, robots, and code-copy, as well as updating the navigation structure and adding breadcrumbs to the site. They also made several updates to the 404 error page and its handling, improving the overall user experience. The user focused on cleaning up and restructuring the existing documentation to improve the site's clarity and usability.
filecoin
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