Christopher Mccloud
Investor And Managing Partner at QDesign Build Group
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Mccloud is an investor-turned-software engineer and managing partner with 11 years of professional experience split between hands-on engineering, mentorship, and running a boutique real estate design firm in Medellín. He began coding via MIT OCW and SICP, retains a deep affinity for Lisp and Emacs, and has contributed meaningful full‑stack work to the popular Spacemacs community—improving Clojure, helm, Magit integrations and user-facing recovery for dotfiles. At QDesign he combines technical problem-solving with client-facing project management, budget oversight, and cross-cultural negotiation to deliver high-end rental properties and strategic immigration-focused investments. A former Hack Reactor mentor, he is comfortable coaching and reviewing code at scale while shipping open-source improvements. Fluent in Spanish and experienced living and working in Colombia, he brings a rare blend of engineering curiosity, product empathy, and operational leadership shaped by international, creative, and startup environments.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Philosophy, Bachelor's degree, Philosophy at Texas Tech UniversityHack Reactor
Spanish, English
Github Skills (11)
configuration-management10
configurations10
emacs10
configuration-file10
clojure-cli9
helm9
vim9
clojure9
co8
magit7
git7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
syl20bnr/spacemacs
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 17 PRs, 82 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the Spacemacs Emacs distribution by adding and modifying features and configurations. The contributions include integrating Clojure support with `popwin` special buffers for cider, adding helm support for file searching, and improving integration with external tools, such as Magit. The user also addressed a bug in eshell related to company frontend and enhanced the user experience by implementing error recovery on dotfile loading.
configurationvimspacemacsemacsemacs-lsp
cmccloud/SICP
May 2015 - May 2023
Contributions:71 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 8 years 1 month
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