Christopher Auclair
Lead Software Engineer at VitalSource
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Auclair is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building accessible, educational web applications, primarily using Ruby on Rails and React. At VitalSource he progressed from production roles to leading development of a WYSIWYG editor and interactive assessment tooling that integrates with LMSs and CI-backed testing. He focuses on UI/UX and accessibility, has presented on EPUB 3 accessibility at CSUN, and has driven performance and maintainability gains by migrating AngularJS to React. A lapsed writer with formal training in journalism and a software engineering certificate from Harvard Extension, he brings strong communication skills to cross-functional teams. Based in Nashua, NH, he balances rigorous engineering with hands-on problem solving learned in production and field roles, and outside work he enjoys cooking, hiking, music, and skiing.
11 years of coding experience
Bishop Guertin High SchoolSoftware Engineering Certificate, Software Engineering Certificate at Harvard Extension SchoolB.S. Print and Multimedia Journalism, B.S. Print and Multimedia Journalism at Emerson College
English, French
Github Skills (25)
javascript10
html5-audio10
video-player10
player10
videojs10
html5-video10
checker9
html9
epub8
pdf7
reader5
accessibility5
windows4
wpf4
command-line-tool3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chrisauclair/newsflash
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:8 PRs, 53 pushes, 2 branches in 8 days
newsnews-aggregatoraggregatorcs50
chrisauclair/masters
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:28 pushes in 1 day
reactmastersfollowcssjavascript
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