Christopher Alderson
Automation Engineer
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Alderson is an Automation Engineer with a decade of experience blending systems administration, backend development, and hands-on automation at scale. Based in the Greater Phoenix Area, he evolved from Linux system administration and managed server support into automation work at Paychex, bringing strong operational instincts to software engineering. Christopher contributes to notable open-source projects like Popcorn Time and Winston, where he modernized code, fixed cross-platform issues, and added media streaming integrations such as Chromecast and DLNA. He’s equally comfortable refactoring core libraries using modern JavaScript as he is solving production problems around deployments and database import/export. A natural leader and team developer from earlier roles in collections and support, he pairs people skills with a practical engineering mindset. Colleagues describe him simply as “a techie” who quietly drives reliability and incremental product improvements.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, A, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, A at University of PhoenixHigh School, General Education, A, High School, General Education, A at North Canyon Highschol
Github Skills (23)
webtorrent10
javascript10
multiplatform10
css10
gui-application10
s610
nwjs10
cross-platform10
desktop-application10
desktop10
html10
logging10
nodejs10
bittorrent10
apim9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop-legacy
Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
Official Popcorn-Time Repo
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:107 commits, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed to the Popcorn Time desktop application, implementing features related to fetching and displaying movies, shows, and anime. They introduced options to change API endpoints and integrated cloudflare functionalities for improved performance. The user also worked on UI elements, like the loading screen, and enhanced the bookmarking feature. Further, their contributions include the integration of DLNA, Chromecast, and Airplay support.
popcorn-timepopcorn
popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop
Mar 2016 - Jun 2018
Popcorn Time is a multi-platform, free software BitTorrent client that includes an integrated media player ( Windows / Mac / Linux ) A Butter-Project Fork
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 PRs, 42 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on bug fixes and feature enhancements for the Popcorn Time desktop application, a multi-platform BitTorrent client. Their contributions included fixing issues related to torrent collections, movie backdrops, and subtitle dropdowns. They also updated the NW.js version and addressed deprecated features, demonstrating a strong understanding of the application's frontend and backend components. The user's work also involved settings management, particularly the import and export of databases.
bittorrentnwjsmulti-platformbittorrent-clientplayer
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