Christian Mcgravey
Software Engineer (Independent Contract) at Self-employed
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Mcgravey is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience spanning low-level systems programming and modern full-stack web development, currently contracting from Greater Boston. He pairs C/C++ expertise—debugging at the instruction level and reverse-engineering binaries—with production-grade JavaScript/TypeScript systems, APIs, and client apps, emphasizing latency, failure handling, and long-term maintainability. As an independent contractor he has led multi-component platforms serving thousands of concurrent users across regions while coordinating distributed teams and roadmaps. At Amazing.com and prior roles he delivered reusable web components and data-heavy interfaces, and on GitHub contributed full-stack enhancements like a CoinMarketCap widget integrating financial APIs into a customizable homepage project. He favors explicit, minimal abstractions that make system behavior clear and reduce hidden complexity, thriving in environments that prioritize technical rigor and honest tradeoff discussions. Outside of client work he experiments with AI-first approaches—summarized on his profile as "ai is winning, embrace it"—reflecting a practical interest in emerging tooling.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at NHTI, Concord's Community College
Github Skills (16)
frontpage10
apim10
javascript10
nextjs10
api10
homescreen10
react10
dockers9
nodejs9
docker9
json8
css8
api-design8
self-hosting7
i18next6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gethomepage/homepage
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
A highly customizable homepage (or startpage / application dashboard) with Docker and service API integrations.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Christian contributed to the implementation of a CoinMarketCap widget for the homepage application. This involved developing frontend components using React and integrating with an API to fetch and display cryptocurrency data. The user also added a time-based selector for the data displayed and updated the API proxy handler. The work is centered on expanding the functionality of the homepage by incorporating a financial data service.
dockerstartpagenextjsnodereact
ItsJustMeChris/Moxie-Backend
Dec 2019 - Sep 2022
Moxie is a tool for setting goals and succeeding at them. This is the RESTful back-end!
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 8 months
backendrestrestful
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