Christian Metts
Senior Staff Engineer at Airship
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChristian Metts is a Principal Engineer in Seattle with 18 years of experience building user-focused, pragmatic web applications and developer tools. He blends hands-on full-stack expertise—from Python/Django backends to TypeScript/React frontends—with leadership that coaches teams and steadies engineering health through large migrations. At Airship he led product-facing systems like messaging, search, and segmentation while driving a transition to strict TS + React; at SheerID he continues to ship reliable customer experiences. A long-time open-source contributor, he’s improved tooling such as django-compressor by adding robust encoding fixes and a Google Closure Compiler filter, showing attention to real-world edge cases. He believes software should be stress-free to ship and maintain, and often approaches problems with practical, human-centered solutions.
18 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Spring Arbor University
Github Skills (9)
css10
python10
django10
google-closure-compiler9
javascript9
testing8
unicode8
build-automation8
templating7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
django-compressor/django-compressor
May 2009 - Jan 2010
Compresses linked and inline javascript or CSS into a single cached file.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the Django Compressor project by addressing issues related to character encoding, integrating the Google Closure Compiler, and enhancing the build process. They fixed bugs regarding non-ASCII characters in CSS files and introduced a new filter using the Google Closure Compiler for Javascript compression. The user also refactored the codebase to improve its structure and performance.
cssjavascriptinlineinline-javascriptcache
mintchaos/nixfiles
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:40 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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