Chris Wisecarver
Staff Backend Software Engineer at Monarch Money
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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SeniorChris Wisecarver is a Staff Backend Software Engineer in Philadelphia with 10 years of experience building user-focused, full-stack web products that prioritize simplicity and delightful UX. He has progressed from front-end roles at The Motley Fool to senior and staff engineering positions at Parse.ly, Interfolio, and Monarch Money, consistently shipping scalable APIs and backend systems. Chris is an active open-source contributor to the Center for Open Science’s OSF project, where he improved API performance, caching, and Celery integrations—work that reflects a backend-first mindset applied to collaborative research infrastructure. He blends hands-on refactoring and performance tuning with product sensibility, routinely translating UX needs into pragmatic technical solutions. Colleagues rely on him to bridge frontend intuition and backend rigor, often surfacing optimizations that aren’t obvious until systems are under real load.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
python, php, ruby
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Github Skills (10)
django-rest10
api10
python10
apidoc10
django-rest-framework10
django10
celery9
caching9
varnish8
javascript4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CenterForOpenScience/osf.io
Jan 2016 - Apr 2017
Facilitating Open Science
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits, 211 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the API of the Open Science Framework project. Their contributions include adding `get_absolute_url` methods to various serializers, such as `FileSerializer`, `FileVersionSerializer`, and `TokenSerializer`. They also implemented ESI content negotiation for Applications and Tokens API segments and made changes related to caching and Varnish integration, further optimizing the project's API performance. A significant portion of their work involved refactoring the codebase, limiting Varnish banning, and moving tasks to Celery.
pythonsciencedjango-rest-frameworkdjangojavascript
CenterForOpenScience/osf-models
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:44 PRs, 200 pushes, 29 branches in 6 months
pythondjangoin-progressdjango-modelsosf
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