Chris Feist Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Founding team member and principal full-stack developer, driving technical design initiatives, and championing collaborative best practices for project success∙ Responsible for technical design and implementation of critical full-stack projects using TypeScript, React, Next.JS, AWS, GraphQL, and Postgres∙ Spearheaded adoption of team best practices, including testing, code reviews, release procedure and collaboration∙ Led team project management efforts, including prioritization, planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives, fostering an adaptive development cycle to meet evolving business needs∙ Championed a collaborative team culture through dynamic meeting facilitation and open communication strategies∙ Provided strategic mentorship, guiding team members for enhanced professional development and collective successNOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:∙Identified team inefficiencies and implemented a project management plan, leading to more focused development, higher team throughput, and individual satisfaction∙ Engineered an AI Chat Assist API for dynamic user input, converting responses into email formats, utilizing ChatGPT and OpenAI technologies∙ Implemented a configurable audience builder with React Query Builder and JsonLogic, empowering dynamic user group creation∙ Architected a robust data pipeline to ingest 3rd party integration data (stripe, Hubspot, Segment) and convert it to customer and company profiles, using a config driven approach and event-driven architecture (Postgres, Kinesis, AWS DMS, Step Functions)∙ Stood up new GraphQL API using GraphQL Yoga in AWS Lambda and connected it to the front end using React Context and tanstack-query

San Francisco, Us

Principal full-stack developer leading a team of 5 globally distributed engineers∙ Develop React applications to support live virtual events (TypeScript, Next.js, CRA)∙ Responsible for development of an embedded (iFrame) white-label React app∙ Develop and document backend APIs used for internal and external use (Node, Express, OpenAPI, AWS, MongoDB)∙ Define and contribute to engineering-wide process, quality, and efficiency initiativesNOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:∙ Implemented many features in our conferencing application including virtual backgrounds and share desktop∙ Wrote an Android React Native plugin to wrap the Amazon IVS SDK∙ Championed coding and development standards within the team∙ Migrated many CI/CD and deployment systems from AWS to GitHub Actions and Vercel∙ Advocated and advised on the implementation of serverless projects using AWS Lambda, Kinesis, and GraphQL∙ Established monitoring systems and disaster recovery procedures for front-end and back-end systems

Seattle, Wa, Us

Full-stack developer specializing in React and React Native front end development, and serverless architecture utilizing AWS products for the backend services∙ Develop cross-platform applications (Android, iOS, web) using React and React Native∙ Develop backend services for Title & Escrow processing and create API's using serverless architecture and AWS Services (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, and more)∙ Client team full stack tech lead∙ Took on the program management role for both dev teams in Jan 2021NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:∙ Delivered an internal ticketing system that utilized Next.js frontend and serverless GraphQL backend∙ Implemented Refinance products in the app to capitalize on the post-COVID refinance boom∙ Reengineered v2 version of the app from the ground up, utilizing >90% shared code for mobile and web∙ Architected a new backend service that uses GraphQL to serve all app data, hooked into other event-driven services, and reduced app data load times from minutes to seconds for 1000+ transactions∙ Implemented user image upload backend that automatically processes images uploaded to S3 bucket, resizes them, persist to permanent storage, and updates the user's records in Dynamo and 3rd party CRM system.∙ Built Seller Net Proceeds feature that is driven from region-specific configuration.∙ Developed automated CRM task creation that is based on different backend triggers.∙ Implemented order creation API's that interface with 3rd party company, allowing them to call our service to start Title & Escrow services.

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Lead Android developer, implementing all things Android including INRIX applications, white label app, and an Android SDK for 3rd party consumption.∙ Developed internal and external Android applications: see “INRIX Traffic Maps & GPS” in Google Play∙ Developed INRIX SDK for use by fortune 500 companies∙ Manage release process and generation of release builds, using git and Jenkins build server∙ Implemented Android source using native libraries, java, xml, and 3rd party libraries∙ Extensive work implementing Android UI and UI animation∙ Drive code quality through unit and integration tests, code standards, and CI builds∙ Responsible for mentoring an intern during both summersNOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:∙ Promoted to Lead Android Developer in Sept. 2016∙ Developed Facebook login and integration with INRIX services∙ Migrated push notification service from Parse to AWS PNS and Firebase Cloud Messaging∙ Implemented gradle build scripts along with Jenkins build jobs to streamline publishing of Apps andlibraries∙ Wrote an internal library that uses Java annotations to greatly simplify handling Proguard rules

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us