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Christopher S. Frontend, Backend and Mobile Platforms

My name is Christopher S. and I have over 2 years of experience in the tech industry. I specialize in the following technologies: Web Development, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, node.js, etc.. I hold a degree in Bachelor of Arts (BA). Some of the notable projects I’ve worked on include: Twilio Calling Center for Progressive Insurance / Level20 (Contract), 100+ Work Samples, Create Videos With React, Three Years at BombBomb, Oracle to Postgres Migration for Large Website, etc.. I am based in Colorado Springs, United States. I've successfully completed 14 projects while developing at Softaims.

My expertise lies in deeply understanding and optimizing solution performance. I have a proven ability to profile systems, analyze data access methods, and implement caching strategies that dramatically reduce latency and improve responsiveness under load. I turn slow systems into high-speed performers.

I focus on writing highly efficient, clean, and well-documented code that minimizes resource consumption without sacrificing functionality. This dedication to efficiency is how I contribute measurable value to Softaims’ clients by reducing infrastructure costs and improving user satisfaction.

I approach every project with a critical eye for potential bottlenecks, proactively designing systems that are efficient from the ground up. I am committed to delivering software that sets the standard for speed and reliability.

Main technologies

  • Frontend, Backend and Mobile Platforms

    2 years

  • Web Development

    1 Year

  • React

    1 Year

  • TypeScript

    1 Year

Additional skills

Direct hire

Potentially possible

Previous Company

Twilio

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Experience Highlights

Twilio Calling Center for Progressive Insurance / Level20 (Contract)

Successfully completed an extended contract with Progressive Insurance’s startup arm, Level20, upgrading and enhancing a Twilio calling center for a home maintenance company called Castle. Built calling center agent CRM in Twilio Flex (React, Node.js), pulling in customer data, routed customers to known agents, managed SMS and IVR flows, erased years of technical debt, created an optimized build process.

100+ Work Samples

Visit my "blogfolio" for 100+ work samples. I'm a creative developer generalist that adapts quickly to new tech and gets things done.

Three Years at BombBomb

I've had the pleasure of working with BombBomb over the last three years as a software engineer, tech lead and senior software engineer. With a mission to re-humanize communication, this was the best place to thrive over a pandemic when I was hired. While BombBomb was helping people connect and build relationships over video asynchronously, I much enjoyed connecting with an excellent team and working on super cool challenges. I also really appreciated how BombBomb gave back to the community in a very personal way (Springs Rescue Mission, Mary's Home, COSILoveYou, Care and Share, Mt. Elgone CarePoint, more I'm missing). A lot of great things happened over three years. Here are my favorite highlights: - I spent much time working in React, Node.js, PHP, Oracle (and the process of switching everything to Postgres), plenty of AWS efforts, TypeScript in some areas. - With BombBomb being an email service provider (ESP), I gained a lot of experience working with fast-paced data and email reputation as we often sent over a million emails per day. This was one focus area for my team. - For cost savings and backup efficiency, I reduced the production Oracle database to roughly half the size (reduced by several terabytes), migrating a set of infrequently accessed data to S3 while still supporting reads/writes for that data. The process to get this data moved in a very active website without much downtime or any lost data was a blast. - I played a large part in enabling compliance file transfers so that companies could quickly obtain a copy of their BombBomb videos stored in their own S3 buckets. This involved a Node.js app that would audit and transfer videos after recording with a nightly audit process to transfer anything missed (example: an enterprise customer just signed up for this and needed all past videos transferred). - A favorite: I joined the philanthropy team as part of the BombBomb people team, helping to support the local community and our neighbors abroad. My favorite related endeavor was helping to internally promote a successful fundraiser. This also involved creating a React/Node.js-powered quiz app for a company-wide remote 80's themed quiz night, with the homemade quiz hosted on a Raspberry Pi (so fun!!). We raised over $3,000 to support a group of kids we were connected with to purchase shoes. - Being promoted to tech lead, my refocussed security team enabled password protected videos and expiring videos. This was a cross-team effort involving the transfer of videos to secure S3 buckets, signing urls and building out microservices that talked each other and our main web app in a sensible and secure way. - BombBomb switched from using Oracle to Postgres as it approached a critical cost tier. I handled many query rewrite and other related migration tasks, especially around a large legacy product no one fully understood. We did understand after a great documentation effort to go along with the migration. I grew a lot professionally with this full team endeavor! - As the team shrunk a bit after pandemic happenings and the workforce reduction with that, I joined a strike team where we redesigned/rebuilt the video browsing experience on the BombBomb website. The team injected the latest React trends and best practices into my brain and I had a chance to build a few neat components while continuing ESP and legacy product support (also involving React). I move forward with fondness for BombBomb and its continued focus in connecting folks through video. I've been using my BombBomb account to connect with potential employers effectively, potentially giving me an edge to cut through the application noise. I'm excited to see BombBomb succeed in its endeavors while I'll use their service I enjoyed contributing to in my own future work regularly.

Oracle to Postgres Migration for Large Website

I was given a fun mug along with others on my team as thanks for finishing a huge milestone at BombBomb. Illustrated by Microsoft Bing's Image Creator, it depicts the PostgreSQL elephant applying a karate kick to "Big Red" (better known as Oracle). It's my new favorite. BombBomb recently finished migrating its entire website from using Oracle databases to PostgreSQL, completely replaced in all apps and tasks. This involved 20+ team members, thousands of database query conversions, and several terabytes of data over the course of 15-ish months. Oracle was expensive. Despite many data optimization efforts leading up to this shift, we had reached a threshold where enterprise billing became a requirement (thousands to million+ dollars per year 😬). PostgreSQL turned out to be a great replacement, greatly reducing costs while maintaining performance. Does that make Oracle bad? Well, I can't answer that. From my perspective, I had a harder time finding good documentation for the more complex topics, relying on information sources such as Tom's Blog and Oracle World (weee!) rather than official documentation. Official documentation wasn't bad for the simpler things. Not all our time could be spent making a database change. BombBomb dedicates the majority of its time serving its customers to enable them to send personable communications to their customers. Much effort was applied at all levels to push this significant endeavor through in a distributed way. It took the entire village. My part in this project was relatively small. In fact, I focused primarily on making things smaller, offloading terabytes of infrequently accessed CLOBs to S3 for reads/writes (much before migration began for general cost savings). I also spent time working through a legacy product to get that working well in Postgres, along with converting other queries in different areas. Super thanks goes to the ops and dev gurus who helped me work through the tough spots! Being able to jump around our codebase to revise queries here and there was super cool. As a developer, I tend to get hyper-focused on one area of our product at a time. This process felt like a grand tour of a large time capsule. Less accessed and older code had more dispersed patterns while newer code was much more united and composable. Some of the older surviving code from startup beginnings was a bit harder to test (before unit tests became a more prominent thing in the industry) while newer efforts were a breeze most of the time. It was a testament to how much this team has evolved and grown, together. The new mug is filled and ready while I work on the next cool thing: a pass at further modernizing video navigation and composing emails.

Robotic Holiday eCard and Fundraiser

Every year, people ask if I'm going to send another robotic holiday eCard. Chances are the answer is yes! Happy holidays from the Stevens family animatronic (and human family members of course). Featuring HotSpark the robot, this video was sent out as my annual holiday eCard suffered by friends, family, co-workers and LinkedIn folks. HotSpark was a custom robot I built with popsicle sticks, hot glue and hobby wire, with custom music created for this project as well. For the window display, I added three light connections to a relay, timed to the music along with mouth and servo movements. The robot resided in our front window, raising close to $150 for Springs Rescue Mission. Neighbors scanned a QR code that lead to a pledge.to donation page, near-instantly triggering personalized thanks and song via a post-purchase webhook. I wonder what results this would have in a downtown bank window...

Education

  • Art Institute of Colorado

    Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Interactive Media Design

    2002-01-01-2005-01-01

Languages

  • English

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