Christopher Baker
Guest Teacher at Harbor.Space Barcelona
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolChristopher Baker is a seasoned technology consultant and Director of React Consulting with 12 years of professional experience and 22 years of coding, now based in Barcelona. He specializes in React and Node.js, blending deep front-end architecture and reusable component design with hands-on delivery—recently integrating React view-models into the CanJS ecosystem. As a former Director of Frontend Technology at Bitovi he excels at rapid onboarding, tech-debt triage, and mentoring teams until they no longer need his day-to-day guidance. His background includes scaling real-time systems (supporting 10,000+ concurrent players) and leading cross-functional teams to build analytics and AI scoring pipelines. Comfortable teaching as well as architecting, he brings a practical mix of legacy-language experience (Perl, PHP) and modern JS leadership to help teams move from prototype to sustainable production.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Physics and Mathematics, Physics and Mathematics at Riverside Community College
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Github Skills (10)
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javascript10
react10
canjs10
dom9
html6
socket-io6
jquery6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
canjs/canjs
Jun 2017 - Mar 2018
Build CRUD apps in fewer lines of code.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 12 PRs, 100 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the frontend aspects of the CanJS project, integrating new features and dependencies related to React. They added and integrated `react-view-model` and `can-react-component` into the ecosystem, enabling the creation of React components within the CanJS framework. Additionally, the user updated existing dependencies and modified test files to support these new components and ensure compatibility with the overall project structure.
cruddomjavascriptframeworkcanjs
DMYetti/dungeons-and-components
Nov 2019 - Sep 2023
A React component library for Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition. https://dmyetti.github.io/dungeons-and-components/
Contributions:10 PRs, 83 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 10 months
react-component-library
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