Chris Manson
Senior Software Engineer at Authmaker
Leinster, Ireland
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Top SchoolChris Manson is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 18 years' experience, specialising in JavaScript and the Ember ecosystem from Leinster, Ireland. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Mainmatter and the founder of Authmaker (a login-as-a-service platform) and the Ember-based JAMstack project Empress, and serves on the Ember Core Learning team. An active open-source contributor, Chris has helped maintain the official Ember Guides and enhanced key projects like ember-cli and ember-paper, touching docs, build tooling and UI components. His background spans founding and scaling startups, consultancy and engineering roles where he focused on server-side rendering, Kubernetes/Docker deployments, JSON:API backends and Node.js services. A practical builder, he designed Authmaker with the explicit goal of enabling a brand-new SaaS to be built, deployed and accepting payment within three days — a detail that highlights his emphasis on developer experience and rapid shipping.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. (Mod), Computer Science, B.A. (Mod), Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ember-learn/guides-source
Dec 2017 - Nov 2022
This repository contains the Ember.js Guides
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 release, 48 reviews, 220 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Ember.js Guides repository by adding, updating, and modifying content related to different Ember.js versions (v2.14.0, v2.16.0, v2.17.0, v2.18.0 and v3.0.0). They updated layout files, headers, footers, and 404 error pages. They also fixed link checkers, adding image and other checks, and updated the test suite.
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adopted-ember-addons/ember-paper
Feb 2015 - Jul 2022
The Ember approach to Material Design.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 76 commits, 96 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the implementation and refinement of user interface components within the Ember-Paper library. Their work involved moving and fixing navigation elements, implementing and styling lists, and addressing deprecation warnings. Furthermore, the user added functionality for chips and contact chips components, demonstrating a focus on UI enhancements. These changes improved the overall user experience and expanded the library's capabilities.
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