Christopher Pelzer
Senior Web Developer (Web Communications Department)
Ferndale, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Pelzer is a Senior Web Developer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining large-scale web systems for Wayne State University, where he’s led delivery of 500+ sites and apps. He specializes in Laravel-driven architectures, modern front-end tooling (webpack, Tailwind), CI/CD with Jenkins, and accessibility best practices, and maintains several open-source projects including the widely used Laravel Nova CKEditor4 field and a forked Vaprobash provisioner. Christopher designs reusable skeleton projects, composer/npm packages, and robust build/deploy pipelines while also mentoring developers and unifying team workflows via a shared Vagrant environment. His background includes legacy PHP maintenance, in-house CMS and API design, and practical DevOps work—demonstrating an unusual blend of application development, infrastructure stewardship, and accessibility-driven engineering.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Central Michigan University
Github Skills (11)
bash10
script10
apache10
composer9
vagrant9
github-oauth8
cicd7
devops7
cd7
automations7
automation7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fideloper/Vaprobash
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Vagrant Provisioning Bash Scripts
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher's commits primarily focus on configuring and modifying scripts for a Vagrant environment, specifically related to Apache and Composer. They removed and disabled Apache modules, demonstrating an understanding of web server configuration. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating GitHub OAuth authentication, highlighting their skills in setting up and managing dependencies for the project. The commits also include an instance of code reversion, demonstrating the user's involvement in maintaining code integrity.
provisioningvagrantbash-scriptsansiblebash
chrispelzer/phpsimpl
Feb 2015 - Aug 2019
A collection of useful PHP classes
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 4 years 6 months
php
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