Christopher Hiller
Sr. Staff Security Engineer at Consensys
Ridgefield, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Hiller is a Sr. Staff Security Engineer with 11+ years crafting resilient JavaScript ecosystems and hardening runtimes, currently at Consensys. A leader in the JavaScript OSS community, he maintains projects relied on by hundreds of thousands of developers and has contributed substantive fixes to flagship repositories like Node.js (notably improving the dgram send API) and Appium. He blends developer experience, tooling, and DevOps sensibilities—having driven a monorepo migration and CI/documentation improvements for large projects—while mentoring and speaking publicly about best practices. Known for quick pattern recognition and creative problem solving, he moves ideas to production with both hands-on coding and strategic stewardship. Based in Ridgefield, WA, he pairs deep internals knowledge with a passion for teaching and long-term OSS maintenance.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer & Information Science, B.S., Computer & Information Science at University of OregonGraduated, Graduated at Lincoln High School
English
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Github Skills (36)
git10
debugging10
debug10
javascript10
postgresql10
runtimes10
apidoc10
coap10
testing10
dgram10
test-framework10
wpgraphql10
col10
postgrest10
api10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
mochajs/mocha
Jul 2014 - Nov 2020
☕️ simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 releases, 48 reviews, 993 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the Mocha framework by addressing various issues related to test behavior and functionality. Their commits included modifying the test framework by fixing a timeout issue, and adding new support for the tests.
test-automationbrowsernode-jstestingjavascript
appium/appium
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Cross-platform automation framework for all kinds of apps, built on top of the W3C WebDriver protocol
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:205 releases, 547 reviews, 940 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on refactoring the existing code to use a monorepo structure. They introduced Lerna for managing the monorepo and migrated various packages including the core Appium code into a new structure. They were also involved in fixing the project's documentation generation, implementing better path handling and managing the build and test pipelines. Their work involved significant changes related to build processes and project organization.
test-automationwindowsappiumw3c-webdriverframework
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