Chris Cowell
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarChristopher Cowell is a versatile solopreneur and technical educator with 23 years of experience helping people use software through training, instructional design, and API documentation. He has delivered curriculum and tooling at AI startup Instabase and led customer education at GitLab, pairing clear communication with hands-on scripting in Python and Go. Earlier in his career he built and mentored teams around automated testing and QA tooling using Java, Ruby, Selenium, and CI/CD practices, and he is a Certified Scrum Master. Based in Portland, he now also runs a pay-what-you-can tech support service for seniors, combining technical depth with practical community impact. He blends rigorous academic roots in computer science and philosophy with a hobbyist interest in data science and deep learning, making technical topics accessible to less-technical audiences.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
api10
openapi10
intellij-idea9
intellij-plugin9
intellij9
java7
gitignore5
nodejs3
ai2
typescript2
javascript2
python2
automation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
instabase/aihub-openapi
Jan 2025 - Nov 2025
AI Hub OpenAPI
Contributions:36 reviews, 19 PRs, 24 pushes in 9 months
aiopenapi
cwcowell/cwcowell.github.io
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
Landing page for Cowell Technical Training, a consulting company that trains non-technical people in technical subjects.
Contributions:4 PRs, 84 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
trainscsssubjectsconsultingtraining
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