Chris Axon
Senior Research Software Engineer at Harvard University
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Axon is a Senior Research Software Engineer based in Somerville with nine years building full-stack and AI-driven products, from early-stage startups to research at Harvard. He blends frontend and backend expertise—React, TypeScript, Node—and practical AI/ML engineering, with experience optimizing Docker builds, HPC-aware workflows, and production deployments. Chris has led solo frontend efforts (Chrome extension for Gmail localization), shaped architecture and build systems, and shipped features for AI video analytics and content-generation tooling. Comfortable across the stack, he writes typed, tested, and well-documented code and has made decisions impacting product and engineering processes. He’s drawn to “talking to machines” and breaking things to understand them, a hands-on curiosity that complements his research-facing role. Actively seeking software engineering roles in the Boston area, he brings a blend of startup speed and research rigor.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Newton North High SchoolBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science at McGill University
Github Skills (24)
yaml-configuration9
controlled9
brain-computer-interface9
system-configuration7
apps-script7
vscode6
yaml6
vscode-extension6
image-processing6
image6
cli5
script5
python5
javascript5
visual-studio-code4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
caxon/caxon.github.io
Oct 2019 - Mar 2024
caxon personal website
Contributions:28 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 5 months
caxon/cminesweeper
Mar 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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