Michael Chaney
Owner at Michael Chaney Consulting Corporation
Franklin, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Chaney is a seasoned software consultant and entrepreneur with over 30 years in software development and 16 years focused on Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. As owner of Michael Chaney Consulting Corporation, he builds web-based systems—often augmented with tools like Apache Solr—for clients in music publishing and transportation while remaining industry-agnostic. He combines hands-on full-stack work with business responsibilities across marketing and sales, and has a track record of practical problem-solving from turning around a bankrupt HOA to training teens in small entrepreneurial ventures. An active contributor to open-source charity work, he’s implemented front-end standardization and timezone-aware backend fixes for rubyforgood/casa, showing attention to UX details that help nonprofits scale. Based in Franklin, Tennessee, he brings deep institutional knowledge from long-term consulting and early career database work at Indiana University.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
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Github Skills (21)
ruby-rails10
bootstrap10
css10
rails10
ruby10
html10
bootstra10
javascript9
google-chrome9
ruby-on-rails9
jquery8
casa7
manage7
rspec7
manager7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rubyforgood/casa
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Volunteer management system for nonprofit CASA, which serves foster youth in counties across America.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 1 push in 4 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on front-end development, implementing and standardizing UI components, specifically related to forms and filter dropdowns. They added form elements and Bootstrap 4 styling. Additionally, they addressed minor HTML issues and adjusted code related to filtering and radio buttons within the application. The user also made small code changes to backend logic related to timezones, but their work was primarily focused on the front-end.
servesyouthr4gmanagement-systemcasa
mdchaney/jsmaze
Jan 2010 - Oct 2022
Contributions:113 commits, 35 pushes in 12 years 10 months
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