Christopher Irish
Developer, Co-founder at Velocity Labs
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Irish is a seasoned Ruby on Rails developer and co-founder with 14 years of experience building high-impact web applications and DevOps solutions for clients from startups to national brands. He founded Burst Software and later co-founded Velocity Labs, where he leads delivery of e-commerce platforms, CMSes, APIs, and custom tools that increase revenue and streamline workflows. Deep expertise in Rails, automated testing (RSpec/Capybara/Selenium), and systems work (Ubuntu, Redis, Memcached) is complemented by front-end skills in JavaScript/Ember and CSS/SASS. An active open-source contributor, he improved RefineryCMS by adding page-preview capabilities and modernizing routing and namespaces. Based in Phoenix, he blends hands-on engineering with a founder’s focus on ROI and elegant, test-driven solutions.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityHighland High SchoolComputer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at Chandler Gilbert Community College
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Github Skills (17)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
refinery-cms10
ruby-on-rails10
erb9
rspec9
front-end-development9
html9
javascript8
wicked-pdf6
multithreading6
delayed-job6
asynchronous6
vcr6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
refinery/refinerycms
Jan 2012 - Jun 2013
An extendable Ruby on Rails CMS that supports Rails 6.0+
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Christopher focused on enhancing the Refinery CMS with a page preview feature. Their work involved modifying core files, including the admin form actions and the pages controller, to add functionality that allows users to preview page changes before publishing. They also implemented request specifications to verify the previewing capabilities, ensuring the correct behavior of existing and new pages. Additionally, the user refactored code to align with upstream namespace changes and fixed issues related to nested page routes.
ruby-on-railscmsrails-cmsrailsrefinery-cms
Biomedix-Dialysis/starburst
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
In-app announcements to users in your Rails app
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 9 months
ruby-on-railsannouncementsrails-apprailsruby
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