Christopher Reichert
Co-Founder at Reichert Brothers
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarChristopher Reichert is a serial founder and software engineer with 15 years of experience building developer-focused products from the ground up. As Co-Founder of Assertible and Director of Product Development at SimplyRETS, he blends product leadership with hands-on backend and mobile engineering to deliver reliable APIs and automated QA for web services. He runs Reichert Brothers to provide Haskell consulting and has a track record contributing to open-source projects like Yesod and Tomahawk, spanning WebSocket support, media playback, and playlist/social features. Comfortable in C++, Qt, Haskell, and Android, he moves between low-level systems work and product-facing integrations with equal fluency. Based in Houston, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep technical craft, often shipping core features and tests himself rather than delegating them. An interesting thread through his career is a focus on developer experience—making complex data and services simple and reliable for other builders.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (33)
c-language10
qt10
yesod10
websocket10
android-development10
java10
javas10
media-playback10
metadata-management10
cprogramming-language10
haskell10
tsql9
dependency-management9
ui-design9
databases9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tomahawk-player/tomahawk-android
Jul 2012 - Nov 2012
Tomahawk's Android Music Player
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:133 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the development of the Android music player application. Their work focused on creating the initial build, including layouts, and adding core functionalities such as the main activity and various activity views (Browse, MyMusic, Friends). They also integrated UI elements and implemented the framework for features like playback, playlist management, and media information display, as well as the incorporation of a background playback service and system-level media integration. Unit tests for the core models and service were also added.
androidandroid-sandroid-music-playermusicmusic-player
tomahawk-player/tomahawk
May 2011 - Jul 2012
Tomahawk, the multi-source music player
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher made significant contributions to the `tomahawk-player` repository, focusing on features related to playlist management and social actions. They implemented functionalities to save and load playlist-specific shuffle and repeat settings. Furthermore, the user added database commands to handle social actions such as "love" and "unlove" for tracks, integrating these actions with the Last.fm plugin. The user also added metadata editing functionality.
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