Howard Watts
Founding Staff Engineer at Chronograph
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHoward Watts is a Founding Staff Engineer based in New York with a decade of hands-on experience building reliable, security-conscious software for startups and enterprise clients. He progressed through multiple founding engineering roles at Chronograph, shaping architecture and delivery since 2017, and earlier drove large-scale codebase hardening and client features at StructuredWeb. Howard contributes to open-source projects like RxDB, improving replication and GraphQL support and adding robust test automation—an indication of his backend and QA depth. He has a history of migrating and modernizing complex legacy systems and creating production-grade school and billing platforms, showing a knack for turning convoluted requirements into dependable, auditable solutions. Known for practical optimizations (even micro-level improvements in tests and loops), he blends systemic thinking with meticulous implementation.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Flatiron SchoolUniversity of MarylandMcDonogh School
Github Skills (14)
testing10
graphql10
rxdb10
javascript10
replication10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
database9
databases9
indexeddb8
rxjs8
typescripts3
typescript3
typescript-types3
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
pubkey/rxdb
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
A fast, local first, reactive Database for JavaScript Applications https://rxdb.info/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Howard primarily focused on improving the replication and GraphQL functionality of the RxDB database. Their contributions include adding tests, supporting replication primitives, and fixing failing tests. They also made changes to the logic used for setting the last push sequence and optimized the codebase by switching to a for loop in the tests.
realtimenosql-databasepouchdbcrdtreactive
learn-co-students/guessing-cli-001-prework-web
Mar 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 PRs in 8 years 11 months
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