Chris Myers
Senior Software Engineer Tech Lead at Cash App
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Myers is a senior software engineer and tech lead with nearly two decades of experience building scalable full-stack systems, now leading engineering at Cash App from Melbourne. A functional programming specialist, he works in Kotlin and Scala and curates FunctionalTalks.org to promote FP ideas in industry. He’s an open-source author of monet.js, a monadic types library for JavaScript, and has a track record applying functional design to high-performance media systems such as Sky’s video transcoding and encoding farms. Chris combines hands-on implementation (from backend services and data stores to front-end JS) with architectural leadership across fintech and media domains. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, test-driven solutions informed by deep experience in JVM ecosystems and distributed processing.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (3)
javascript10
functional-programming10
monads10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
monet/monet.js
Feb 2012 - Jul 2016
monet.js - Monadic types library for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 153 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the development of the monet.js library, focusing on implementing and testing the Option monad. They introduced the `Some` and `None` types, along with methods like `map`, `bind`, and `orSome`. The user also added comprehensive Jasmine tests, implemented `flatMap`, `chain`, and `of` methods, and refactored the code to use the "Maybe" type.
javascript
Synesso/FunctionalTraining
Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
Introducing functional programming to interested and enlightened people.
Contributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 11 months
functional-programming
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