Christian Chown
Head Of Mobile Labs - Innovation Hub
Taunton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Chown is a seasoned software leader with 11 years of professional experience who currently leads Santander’s Mobile Labs - Innovation Hub while also running a trio of education-focused apps through Parentscope Limited. He’s a hands-on React, React Native and Node developer who has repeatedly taken greenfield projects from zero to the App Store and co-authored several substantial ReactJS applications. A committed mentor and speaker, he writes about TypeScript, Redux and Firebase, contributes TypeScript typings to the high-profile DefinitelyTyped repository, and has begun exploring React in ReasonML. His background spans leadership roles from Head of Development to lead programmer at Sony, blending product-minded engineering with a history of shipping mobile-first solutions for enterprises and startups. Based in Taunton, England, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with practical OSS contributions and a deep focus on mobile developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computation, BSc (Hons), Computation at UMIST
Github Skills (13)
typescript10
dts10
typescripts10
react-native10
react10
typescript-types10
typedefs10
type-definition9
javascript9
build-definition7
typescript-definitions7
type-system7
dictionary7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 9 PRs, 2 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the TypeScript type definitions within the `definitelytyped/definitelytyped` repository. They added and updated type definitions for various React-related libraries, including `react-is`, `react-native-restart`, `react-native-referrer`, `react-native-huawei-protected-apps`, and `react-native-google-signin`. The user's contributions focused on ensuring accurate type safety and compatibility with different versions of these React and React Native libraries.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
christianchown/easyrouter
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:60 commits, 48 pushes, 8 branches in 3 months
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