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.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business Administration at University of Arkansas
Github Skills (17)
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react-native10
typescript10
ethereum10
typescript-types10
blockchain10
typescripts10
react10
react-native-component9
redux9
android-developers8
android-developer8
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ios8
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Programming languages (6)
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:323 reviews, 135 commits, 182 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.
pocketethereumreact-nativerainbowwallet
derHowie/TypeAssault
Apr 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:47 commits, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 6 months
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