Christian Brickhouse
Program Coordinator, Scholastic Chess
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristian Brickhouse is a program coordinator and educator with 11 years of experience blending community engagement, pedagogy, and technical curiosity in San Francisco. At the Mechanics' Institute he runs after-school and public chess programs across 15 schools and city parks, organizes one of the region’s largest scholastic tournaments, and manages a team of international instructors to expand access and equity in youth programming. A former Stanford PhD candidate in linguistics, he brings research-informed thinking and careful program design to curriculum development and coach training. He also contributes to open-source front-end work—improving usability and robustness in the widely used jsPsych experimental library—highlighting a rare combination of educational leadership and hands-on software development.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Canisius High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, summa cum laude in Linguistics and Anthropology, Bachelor’s Degree, summa cum laude in Linguistics and Anthropology at Cornell UniversityPhD (did not complete), Linguistics, PhD (did not complete), Linguistics at Stanford University
American Sign Language, German, English
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Github Skills (13)
javascript10
front-end-development10
experimental-design10
html9
psychology8
shell6
linux6
bash6
scalar6
perl6
unix6
environment-variables6
if-statement6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jspsych/jsPsych
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
Create behavioral experiments in a browser using JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to enhancing the user interface and improving the functionality of the jsPsych library. Their work focused on addressing potential trial deadlock issues in image and button response plugins, improving error messaging and providing helpful hints to users. They added new features such as the autofocus parameter for the survey-html-form plugin, which improves user experience. Additionally, the user addressed several documentation issues related to key press options.
jspsychsciencebrowsersbmlpsychology
chrisbrickhouse/chrisbrickhouse.github.io
Jul 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
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