Christopher Collins
Staff Software Engineer at Sapphire Digital, part of Zelis
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Collins is a Staff Software Engineer with 13+ years of professional experience and a web development career that began in the mid-1990s, blending visual design instincts with deep backend expertise. He’s long been a LAMP specialist—skilled in Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and MVC frameworks—while also driving front-end interactivity with AngularJS, jQuery, and RESTful APIs. As owner of a small digital agency and a senior engineer at healthcare transparency platform Sapphire Digital/Vitals, he pairs hands-on architecture and deployment work with product-focused UI/UX and API design. He has built entire businesses’ web presences and infrastructure, and continues to learn new platforms like iOS/Objective-C and Ruby on Rails to broaden his toolset. Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Christopher is the rare engineer who started from Photoshop and Notepad and now delivers full-stack solutions that balance artful interfaces with scalable, well-structured back ends.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at Rogers State University
English, javascript, php, html, css, typescript
Github Skills (30)
angularjs-directive10
typescript9
angular-cli9
angular9
cli9
seed8
mapbox-gl8
mapbox-gl-js7
electron7
angularjs5
selectize5
editor5
microsoft5
visual-studio-code5
css4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mdx-dev/github-release-manager
Nov 2020 - May 2025
Creates and downloads Github releases
Contributions:2 reviews, 16 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Sixthdim/angular-vertilize
Jul 2015 - May 2019
An AngularJS directive to vertically equalize a group of elements with varying heights.
Contributions:2 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 10 months
angularjs-directive
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