Christopher Saylor
Director Of Software Engineering at Zumba
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Saylor is a Director of Software Engineering with 15 years of experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver e-commerce, ERP, and live video streaming platforms for Zumba. He combines hands-on expertise in PHP, JavaScript, and Go with practical knowledge of MySQL, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch to drive architecture, release management, and test automation. At Zumba he’s advanced from individual contributor to director, mentoring engineers and shaping the core fitness platform’s roadmap. An active open-source contributor, he improved flexibility and usability in the bottlejs dependency-injection library—adding immediate provider instantiation and reset capabilities—demonstrating a focus on pragmatic tooling improvements. Based in the Raleigh-Durham area, he pairs product-minded leadership with a history of integrating back-office systems like inventory, ERP, and payments.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Engineering, Bachelor Computer Engineering at University of South Carolina
Github Skills (5)
container10
javascript10
dependency-injection10
testing9
middleware6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
young-steveo/bottlejs
Oct 2014 - Jan 2017
A powerful dependency injection micro container for JavaScript applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed significantly to the `bottlejs` project, focusing on enhancements to the core dependency injection functionality. Their work includes adding a `digest` method for immediate provider instantiation and improving documentation. They also implemented a feature to allow providers to be reset and made the container name available as a constant. The user's commits demonstrate a focus on improving the framework's flexibility and usability.
decoratorsservice-locatorpsr-11injectionjavascript
cjsaylor/design-for-success-slides
Nov 2017 - Oct 2018
Slides for Design for Success with Storybook.js and React.
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 10 months
reactcleaverslideslideshowstorybook
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