Chris Dickinson Email & Phone Number

Boulder, Co, Us

I worked with a small team to define & build a compute product, understand & implement security boundaries (including networking), and speed up shipping iterations. Got a crash course on networking. Built an on-line management system for Nomad using Rust. Additionally: built internal development environment tools to unblock multiple teams. These tools formed the basis for the CI system. Used multiple cloud providers during the course of this work: Hetzner, GCP, NetActuate, AWS, Azure, through a combination of in-house and external tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi.)I approached each task with a laser focus on automation in the aim of maximizing return on effort, while validating the results of my work with peers.

Los Angeles, Us

Los Angeles, Us

Replaced the deployment system at Eaze. This cut monthly infrastructure cost in half, took deploy time down from an hour to two minutes, improved morale across teams by reducing contention on shared environments, and allowed us to scale the department by decoupling teams from one another.I worked to validate that new deploy system with our fellow engineers: answering questions, incorporating their feedback, and making sure the project was a success by extending ownership over the end result to the entire team. [1]Additionally, I worked on platform tools to ensure a base level of capabilities across our services, ensuring all teams had access to quality monitoring, logging, and observability. As teams began adopting TypeScript, I ported JavaScript internal tools for their use. Finally, I worked to give the team porting our monolithic C# application tools to validate their changes. This involved coordinating a 30 person team in the construction of a series of high level integration tests across multiple areas of software engineering (mobile eng, website engineering, & backend engineering.) I gave a presentation on the results to Honeycomb. [2][1]: https://www.neversaw.us/2020/12/19/deploying-at-eaze/[2]: https://www.neversaw.us/presentations/20220426-to-honeycomb.pdf

Oakland, Ca, Us

Grew the npm package registry from 500MM downloads a week to 2 billion downloads a day, working with a distributed team of engineers across two continents and 5 timezones. Designed and implemented an authentication and authorization system to scale with that growth. Managed the services team, worked as a tech lead, designed the architecture for & launched www.npmjs.com. Responsible for migrating billing systems for the entire company. Implemented the switch from Fastly CDN to Cloudflare. Involved with the ES modules effort in my role as a Node TSC Emeritus. Accidentally turned the registry into a teapot once.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Focused on maintaining access control and billing services for the registry.

Represented the interests of Wal-Mart Labs to the Node project. Involved in the io.js fork & eventual re-integration of io.js and Node. Introduced the Working Group Charter organizational pattern. Worked to improve the docs & bug triage capabilities of the Node project. Solved memory leaks using gdb/lldb, & improving the performance of existing JavaScript for the Hapi ecosystem. Experimented with partial evaluation of and control flow graph generation for JS in order to track down implicit dependencies on Node behavior.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Brought in to improve frontend JavaScript practices & work on the Django-powered marketing user interface. Built a team of five JavaScript frontend engineers. Shipped multiple projects, including a trigger-building interface, a revamp of the core push notification authoring UI, location selection widgets, and an overall framework for working with & testing JavaScript on the frontend.

Resident JavaScript advocate; building cool frontend things while still fiddling around with backend logic. Best of both worlds!

Assist in the development and deployment of new features inside the Ellington and Marketplace suites.

Django and JavaScript; about 60/40 front end development and design vs. back end development. Ate bagels.

Helped construct and design a social networking site built around the premise of following villages receiving aid from water.org. Heavy social integration work, intense focus on TDD.

Lawrence, Ks, Us

Worked on infrastructure and support, built a new product-purchasing workflow, developed an ORM, sped up the admin by eliminating redundant mysql queries, etc.