Curt Gratz
Owner at Computer Know How
Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCurt Gratz is an experienced full-stack developer, system architect, and project manager with 16+ years leading custom web application work through his firms Computer Know How and CKH Consulting. He builds and mentors teams across front-end design to back-end architecture, specializing in JavaScript and ColdFusion/CFML solutions and a pragmatic embrace of open source. Curt’s contributions to the ColdBox HMVC framework show hands-on problem solving in rendering, module interception, and performance testing under load—work that improves core framework reliability. Based in Wisconsin, he pairs a BBA in Computer Software Engineering with decades of client-facing ownership, consistently translating complex requirements into maintainable, production-ready systems.
16 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Computer Software Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Github Skills (7)
hmvc10
caching10
mvc10
cfml10
coldfusion10
dependency-injection9
aop9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ColdBox/coldbox-platform
Jan 2010 - Apr 2014
A modern, fluent and conventions based HMVC framework for ColdFusion (CFML)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Curt primarily worked on the ColdBox HMVC framework, fixing issues in the rendering module. They addressed problems with explicitly rendering the module, modifying the Renderer.cfc file and also worked on stand-alone tests for event caching under load, specifically configuring the config/coldbox.xml.cfm and config/routes.cfm files. They also fixed an issue registering custom interception points in modules. Their contributions focused on improving the framework's core functionalities and testing its performance.
hmvccfmlframeworklogging-librarydependency-injection
gratzc/understanding-graphql
Jun 2020 - Jul 2023
Code and slides from Understanding GraphQL talk
Contributions:25 PRs, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
understandinggraphql
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