Christopher Howard
Lead Software Engineer at Rainbow
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Howard is a Lead Software Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building front-end and mobile applications using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and React Native. He progressed from mobile-focused roles to technical leadership at delivery.com and Rainbow, where he now leads engineering efforts for a consumer crypto wallet. His hands-on contributions to the popular Rainbow Ethereum wallet include transaction speed-ups, nonce handling, cross-chain swaps, and UI/UX optimizations, reflecting both product and protocol-level understanding. Christopher pairs full-stack fluency with practical mobile expertise, having shipped Android and iOS experiences and refactored critical token launch flows. He brings a business-adjacent perspective from a B.S. in Business Administration, helping translate product needs into pragmatic engineering trade-offs. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who balances shipping fast with maintaining long-term code health.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business Administration, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business Administration, Business Administration and Management, General at University of Arkansas
Github Skills (17)
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typescript10
ethereum10
typescript-types10
blockchain10
typescripts10
react10
react-native-component9
redux9
android-developers8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rainbow-me/rainbow
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
🌈‒ the Ethereum wallet that lives in your pocket
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:364 reviews, 135 commits, 205 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed significantly to the Rainbow Ethereum wallet project, implementing improvements for transaction speed-up and cancellation features, as well as integrating the use of nonces. They also refactored code related to token launches and optimized the UI. Furthermore, the user added functionalities for cross-chain swaps and updated UI components, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the project's architecture and the technologies involved. The user also made code changes across various files, from core transaction handling to UI components and backend logic, showing a broad range of contributions.
ethereum-walletreact-nativeethereumrainbowdefi
derHowie/TypeAssault
Apr 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:47 commits, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 6 months
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