Christopher Fanning is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of technical and public-service experience, currently building software at CVS Health from his base in Chicago. He blends strong Linux systems administration and scripting roots with full-stack development skills gained through General Assembly and hands-on roles across startups and enterprises. A former City of Chicago firefighter and ER technician, he brings calm under pressure and a disciplined, operational mindset to incident-prone production environments. Christopher is an active open-source contributor on front-end projects—recently improving the popular sbuttons repo by adding compact button variants and refining toggle behavior—demonstrating attention to accessible, reusable UI components. He pairs practical automation experience (bash, Ruby, Python, JS, SQL) with a BS in Computer Science to deliver reliable, maintainable solutions across the stack.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of the People
Full-stack Software Development, Full-stack Software Development at General Assembly
:bulb: Simple buttons you can use easily for your next project.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Christopher focused on enhancing the "sbuttons" repository, which is a collection of CSS-based buttons. They primarily added an `xsmall-btn` class to customize button sizes, modifying LESS files (`_variables.less`, `_toggle.less`) to incorporate new styles and adjust button dimensions. The contributions also involved updating the compiled CSS file (`sbuttons.css`) to reflect these changes and included adjustments related to toggle button functionality, including positions for various states.
Contributions:2 PRs, 42 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 11 months
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Christopher Fanning - Software Engineer at CVS Health