Christopher Schneider
Software Engineer at Scout Monitoring
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Schneider is a pragmatic software engineer with 18 years of experience building maintainable, well-tested applications across Java, C#, Ruby, and Perl. Based in Fort Collins, he blends hands-on development with a strong taste for clean design and automated testing, often advocating Agile practices without dogma. His background ranges from rapid customer-driven ASP.NET cycles to enterprise J2EE tax systems and current engineering at Scout Monitoring, giving him fluency in both startup velocity and global team collaboration. He contributes to open-source tooling such as enhancements to the official Sinatra book build process, showing attention to documentation and build automation. Interested in stepping into technical leadership, Christopher pairs practical architectural thinking with a track record of mentoring peers through brown-bag sessions and process improvements. He favors the simplest solution that works, backed by a full suite of tests and a focus on long-term code quality.
18 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computers, Computer Science, Computers at Colorado State University
Github Skills (9)
ruby10
thor10
web-framework10
file-management10
sinatra10
erb10
markdown-it9
markdown9
rack8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
cschneid/sinatra-book
Jun 2008 - Nov 2012
OFFICAL REPO MOVED TO /sinatra/sinatra-book Tutorial + Cookbook
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher focused on enhancing the Sinatra book project's build process and markdown handling. They implemented the `complete_markdown` function, which assembles markdown files in a specified order. The user also added a `clean` function to remove the output directory, and refactored the code to use an external file to define the order of markdown files. Finally, they moved content between chapters to the build script to improve organization.
cookbooksinatra
cschneid/cschneid.github.io
Jan 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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