Christopher Nail
Software Engineer at Qanapi
Hamden, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Nail is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable Java/Spring back ends and full-stack eCommerce applications, currently contributing at Qanapi after a long tenure leading Identity & Security efforts at IBM. He has hands-on expertise in IAM, 2FA migrations, and backlog and sprint leadership, paired with open-source contributions to Broadleaf Commerce where he implemented Offer Management features and integrated PayPal into a Spring Boot storefront. Comfortable across the stack, he combines a strong CS academic foundation (MS/BS, University of Oklahoma) with practical UX and graphics interests that inform cleaner front-end work. Known for pragmatic refactors and shipping reliable payment and promotion workflows, he brings both operational support experience and product-focused engineering to teams.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Oklahoma
Github Skills (18)
paypal10
api-rest10
catalog10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
css10
payment-integration10
java10
javas10
front-end-development10
thymeleaf10
spring-boot10
html10
management10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
BroadleafCommerce/BroadleafCommerce
Jan 2015 - Jun 2020
Broadleaf Commerce CE - an eCommerce framework based on Java and Spring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1206 commits, 46 PRs, 194 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to back-end development, focusing on features related to Offer Management. They worked on fixing bugs, modifying existing controller methods and updating templates to support those methods, and introducing new functionality related to catalog items such as, including a new property, "hasPromotionMessage." The user's contributions centered around code improvements and features related to Offer and Product management.
spring-bootecommercecommercespringecommerce-framework
BroadleafCommerce/DemoSite
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
The Broadleaf Heat Clinic Spring Boot application
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 7 days
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the frontend of the Broadleaf Heat Clinic Spring Boot application. Their work included removing broken resources, updating the homepage banner, introducing new page templates, and making significant changes to the checkout process, including integrating PayPal payment functionality. They refactored existing code to incorporate the PayPal integration, modifying the checkout controller and payment methods, demonstrating a good understanding of the application's structure.
spring-bootheatspringspring-boot-applicationjava
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