Christopher Newhouse
Software Engineering at Ironclad
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Newhouse is a versatile software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable, full-stack solutions across startups and mid-size tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has led product and engineering efforts end-to-end—from founding and architecting Revolt to owning Datanyze’s mobile and list-building products and managing large infrastructure fleets. At Flexport and Anvil Foundry he focused on domain-specific engineering (customs and API tooling), and he currently contributes to Ironclad’s engineering organization. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced anvilco/spectaql by adding dynamic GraphQL example generation, refactoring for cleaner abstractions, and improving documentation and enum handling. Known for a practical, honest work style and an adventurous, easygoing demeanor, he brings both technical depth and cross-functional empathy to product development. He pairs a BA in Computer Science with a background spanning trading, sales engineering, and outdoor instruction—an unusual mix that informs pragmatic, user-centered engineering.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Degree: Bachelor of Arts Computer Science, Degree: Bachelor of Arts Computer Science at Bucknell UniversityThe Pingry School
Spanish
Github Skills (7)
graphql10
api-documentation10
documentation-generator10
javascript10
nodejs10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
anvilco/spectaql
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Autogenerate static GraphQL API documentation
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:93 reviews, 335 commits, 640 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed significantly to the project by augmenting the GraphQL API documentation generation process. They added dynamic example generation, including the integration of a custom example processor module. Furthermore, the user refactored and improved the codebase, replacing specific usages with more general ones for better code quality. The user also enhanced documentation clarity and added support for features, such as reference interpolation and handling of enum descriptions.
apigraphql-apidocumentation-generatorjavascriptapi-documentation
anvilco/node-anvil
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Node API Client for Anvil
Contributions:1 release, 182 reviews, 147 commits in 2 years 5 months
pdf-fillapianvilapi-clientpdf
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