Chris Woodhams
Business Owner at Particle Effects, LLC
South Haven, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Woodhams is a versatile software engineer and business owner with a decade of experience building cloud-native, serverless, and embedded UI systems while running his own digital studio in South Haven, Michigan. He blends programming, design, and product strategy—having led UI teams at X-Rite, built voice-enabled cloud solutions for smart appliances, and shipped game prototypes and tooling with Unity, Unreal, and web stacks. A pragmatic leader and mentor, he has driven reductions in bugs and improved delivery through testing, security practices, and clear UX proposals. Chris contributes to open-source DevOps work around Azure Functions and serverless packaging, demonstrating hands-on backend and deployment expertise beyond typical front-end roles. His background in cinematography and video production informs a strong visual sensibility that surfaces in VFX, live-streaming, and polished UX.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Bachelor’s Degree Cinematography and Film/Video Production at University of Michigan
English, French
Github Skills (10)
azure-functions10
javascript10
serverless-framework10
webpacker10
webpack10
nodejs9
azure8
devops8
microsoft-azure8
cicd7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/serverless-azure-functions
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Serverless Azure Functions Plugin – Add Azure Functions support to the Serverless Framework
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 14 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the integration of serverless functions within the Azure environment. Their commits involved modifying build processes by integrating `serverless-webpack` and updating the function deployment lifecycle. They also refactored code to move function configuration files to the correct directories and refactored the deployment hooks. These changes improve the automated packaging and deployment of Azure Functions within the Serverless Framework.
azure-functionsserverlessazureserverless-frameworkazure-serverless
KosnIre/serverless-azure-webpack-sample
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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