Chris Hayes

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👨‍💻 Software Engineer - Digital Surgeons
🚀 LOVE space, SpaceX, Formula1, docs, and fantasy novels
☕ DRINK ORDER Mocha Soylent; but dark roast, black coffee on occasion
🏗️ BUILD websites, 3D product configurators, and Electron applications

👨‍💻 Tech I work with

🧑‍🎨 Frontends

Web | Vue/Nuxt, React/Next, Tailwind, MUI
E-comm | Shopify
CMS | WordPress, Craft
WordPress | Elementor, GeneratePress, Pods.io

🤖 Automation/Testing

Framework | Puppeteer, WebDriver.io (Selenium)
Functional Testing | Mocha, Chai
Visual Regression | Reg Suit

📱 Other

WebGL | PlayCanvas, THREE.JS, Babylon.JS

🧰 Toolbox

Main Editor | VSCode (with Vim emulator)
CLI Editor | Vim
Browser | Personal - Firefox Dev, Work - Chrome
OS | Personal projects - Ubuntu 20.04, Work - MacOS, and Win10 as QA requires

🏫 History with programming

2008 - 2015 | Pre High School, High School

C++ - Followed Bucky's tutorials of thenewboston.com
Java - Followed Liang's Comprehensive Java textbook; Built Java mitosis simulation for Biology final project
3D - Experimented with DirectX, OpenGL (ES), WebGL.
VB.NET - From school's only coding class; Built MSPaint clone
Lua - Learned to build virtual carts on PICO-8; Built Tetris clone
Web dev - Began to build static webpages with HTML/CSS/JS/Bootstrap

2015 | College

Coursework languages: C, C++, Java, and Python
Learned to love Linux and Vim
Learned Node and web dev outside college; Built Cubefield clone, HTML version of Portal 1 and 2's credits visuals.
Built on C++ simulation software designed for cluster computing as an undergrad research assistant
2018 Connecticut Tech Challenge: Placed 1st at UNH qualifier, part of a team that placed 2nd at the state finals

2017 | Scroll Network

Joined Scroll Network while attending college
Built prototype MEAN+Electron app that utilized WebRTC for P2P file sharing
Built initial static site before later upgrading it to an Angular SSR site
Represented Scroll at TechCrunch Disrupt 2018 in San Francisco

2019 | Reality Interactive

Maintain+refactor Xenith's Shopify e-commerce website
Built EndlessPools's 3D pool builder - UI with Vue2, 3D with PlayCanvas3D (WebGL framework)
Rebuilt the company website with WordPress, Elementor, Pods.io
Designed and built a Vue3+Electron internal operations application to interface with ELK stack and automate operate retail hardware devices numbering in the thousands.