Christopher W
Director Of Engineering at Arux
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher W is a Director of Engineering based in Minneapolis with 18 years designing and shipping web applications, primarily in Ruby on Rails. He progressed from hands-on roles—authoring web development content and building internal university and enterprise systems—to leading engineering teams and platform initiatives at Zencoder, Brightcove, Otoy, and Arux. Notably, he rebuilt Zencoder’s encoding job system in Elixir to boost throughput and capacity without added hardware, demonstrating a knack for pragmatic performance engineering. He combines strong API and developer-experience sensibilities with experience in SSO, billing, and cloud migrations, helping product teams focus on core features. A long-time advocate of TDD and clear documentation, he’s as comfortable mentoring support teams as he is driving architecture decisions.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mass Communications: Advertising Computer Science, BS Mass Communications: Advertising Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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Github Skills (62)
ruby-wrapper10
identity10
omniauth10
authentication10
authorization10
oauth2-server10
doorkeeper10
oauth2-provider10
oauth10
api-client9
devise9
jwt9
api9
ruby-on-rails9
spree9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chriswarren/chriswarren.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
chriswarren/dotfiles
Jul 2017 - Dec 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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