Chris Weekly

Current

• Web Applications Architect at Upromise, Inc.

Past

• Software Engineering Manager at Upromise, Inc.
• Principal Software Engineer at Upromise, Inc.
• Senior Web Developer at Upromise, Inc.

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Education

• University of Virginia

Recommended

7 people have recommended Chris

Connections

219 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• Upromise (Loyalty Marketing)
• Upromise (Shopping App)
• Personal Site

Chris Weekly’s Summary

Web Applications Architect with over nine years of experience designing and developing websites on a variety of platforms (e.g. J2EE:Struts/Tiles/JSP and LAMP:PHP/MySQL). Areas of particular expertise include client-server interaction; web standards; site scalability; page performance; Apache URL rewriting; all details of the presentation tier and its integration with core server-side code; SEO; and a deep understanding of the HTTP protocol. Interested in tracking emerging changes in web-related technologies (e.g. Ajax, JSON, Wiki, Rails, etc.) and applying what I learn to large-scale, robust, high-performing, useful and profitable websites. I also enjoy teaching and training others in all of this stuff. My current role has me working with a small peer group of architects to design and oversee implementation of a modular collection of web applications using PHP5, Java and Web Services. I continue to enjoy mentoring smart developers, guiding business stakeholders in technology decisions and website strategy, and writing some code to stay sharp.

Chris Weekly’s Specialties:

website architecture and development; HTTP, (D/X/)HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JSP, Taglib, Struts, Tiles, Apache, mod_rewrite, PHP5, Ajax, Wiki, RSS, SEO, etc.

Chris Weekly’s Experience

• Web Applications Architect

  Upromise, Inc.

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; SLM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Web Applications Architect, cofounding a new solutions architects group within the larger Engineering team, to drive technology decisions across the company. A hybrid of Analyst, Principal Developer and Mentor, R&D / Prototyping and Evangelist roles. This role finds me guiding business stakeholders, designing individual applications and their interfaces to one another, researching and selecting technology platforms and tools, and working with the senior developers to implement new features and applications.

Additional Information

Chris Weekly’s Websites:

• Upromise (Loyalty Marketing)
• Upromise (Shopping App)
• Personal Site

Chris Weekly’s Interests:

web technologies, music, playing guitar, reading, travel, skiing, snowboarding, teaching, homebrew beer, soccer, philosophy, art, ocean sailing, fantasy football, motorcycles, etc.

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