Chris Watson
Software Engineer Consultant at Watzon Ventures LLC
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Watson is a senior full-stack software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building production web and SaaS systems, currently consulting from Salt Lake City. He ships end-to-end, well-architected solutions using TypeScript, Rust, and Go, and has deep UI experience with React and Svelte. Chris combines product ownership with hands-on engineering—designing clean architectures, thoughtful UX, and deployment pipelines to take features from concept to production. As an open-source contributor he has improved core functionality in projects like the gramjs Telegram client, adding message parsing and event handling improvements. He thrives on teams that value craftsmanship and pragmatic simplicity, and brings startup founder instincts to every engagement.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
api-client10
telegram10
mtproto10
nodejs10
api-design9
event-handling9
api9
angular6
ruby-on-rails6
angular-directives6
angularjs6
bots6
typescript6
perl6
Programming languages (38)
Github contributions (5)
gram-js/gramjs
Dec 2019 - Nov 2021
NodeJS/Browser MTProto API Telegram client library,
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 18 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the gramjs/gramjs library by fixing import errors, patching the logger, and updating console logs within the client code. They implemented a Markdown parser to handle message formatting and added new functionalities for event handling, specifically adding the ability to default to raw events. These changes focused on improving the core functionality and message handling capabilities of the Telegram client library.
api-clienttelegram-botapibrowserclient-library
watzon/watzon.tech
Nov 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:62 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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