Chris Zempel
Senior Software Engineer Aha The World's 1 Product Development Software at Aha!
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Zempel is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building web applications and product-focused tooling, currently contributing to Aha!'s remote-first SaaS platform. He has strong full-stack chops with a history of Ruby on Rails contracting, front-end architecture modernization, and introducing GraphQL and unidirectional state flows to legacy systems. At Maritz he led a UI redesign that turned a six-week development bottleneck into a parallelizable workflow, and he has shipped high-traffic prototypes like InvisibleGirlfriend to a large initial user base. Comfortable across startup and enterprise contexts, he blends pragmatic engineering with product thinking to help teams move faster and build lovable software. Based in Missouri, he pairs technical craft with an interest in design and narrative — evidenced by a recent dive into both design theory and fiction — which informs his thoughtful approach to user-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Communication, Bachelor's degree, Communication at Truman State University
Github Skills (200)
lit-element10
mvc10
ruby10
state-machine10
custom-element10
javascript10
html10
rails10
statechart10
fsm10
visualizer10
state-management10
chameleon9
lit-html9
api9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ZempTime/canibringmygrandma
Dec 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:17 PRs, 79 pushes, 56 branches in 9 years 5 months
ZempTime/ridereminder
Jun 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:23 PRs, 95 pushes, 54 branches in 8 years 10 months
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