Christopher Vickery
Staff Software Engineer at dutchie
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Vickery is a Staff Software Engineer in Portland with 17 years of hands-on experience building full-stack JavaScript systems, scaling backend services, and leading small cross-functional teams. Currently carving out greenfield projects at dutchie, he combines a bias for action with a taste for tackling obscure technical details and shipping pragmatic solutions. He’s founded a game studio, led JavaScript modernization at Blockstream, and shipped tooling for reverse-engineering and everyday developer workflows at comma.ai. An active open-source contributor, he has improved CLI UX and robustness for the widely used all-contributors/cli project, including edge-case fixes like supporting pipe characters and non-GitHub contributors. Known for turning hobbies into careers, he brings entrepreneurial instincts, curiosity, and a penchant for getting things working—even if he has to ask forgiveness later.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Internetology, Master's degree, Internetology at The Internet
Github Skills (8)
command-line-tool10
javascript10
nodejs10
jtest8
jes8
jestjs8
markdown7
markdown-it7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
all-contributors/cli
Apr 2017 - Dec 2017
Tool to help automate adding contributor acknowledgements according to the all-contributors specification ✨
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the functionality and user experience of the `all-contributors/cli` tool. Their commits focused on enhancing features such as supporting pipe characters in GitHub names and updating contribution choices within the prompt. They also fixed bugs related to adding contributors via the CLI and supported contributors without GitHub accounts. The user demonstrated expertise in modifying the CLI's core logic and improving its overall usability.
command-line-toolpythonall-contributorscontributorrecognition
chrisinajar/config-request
Apr 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 5 months
javascriptnodejsconfigurablerequest
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