Chris Bianca
Director Of Engineering at Shoppr
Aylesbury, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Bianca is a Director of Engineering and entrepreneur with 11+ years of experience building and scaling e-commerce and consumer platforms, currently leading development of a next‑generation hospitality platform. He blends hands‑on engineering (Java, TypeScript, React/React Native, Node.js) with product and architectural leadership, having architected Ocado’s Smart Platform and launched Morrisons’ groceries site. As a founder and consultant he’s delivered cloud migrations, developer tooling and mobile platforms for clients including Google/Firebase, Anthony Nolan and IMG brands. Chris is an active open‑source maintainer—co‑creating React Native Firebase and continuing to maintain react-firebase-hooks (over 2M downloads)—bringing practical improvements like TypeScript conversions and BigQuery schema tooling. He has a track record of building teams across the UK and Poland, shipping complex microservices on GCP and AWS, and turning prototype products into investor‑backed businesses. Based in Aylesbury, he combines startup grit with enterprise delivery discipline and a proven knack for automating maintainability in mobile and cloud projects.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels Maths (A) Further Maths (A) Physics (A) Computer Science (A), A-Levels Maths (A) Further Maths (A) Physics (A) Computer Science (A) at Aylesbury Grammar School2:1 BEng (Hons) Computer Science with Industrial Placement, 2:1 BEng (Hons) Computer Science with Industrial Placement at University of York
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Github Skills (34)
objective-c10
google-cloud-firestore10
firebase-authentication10
javascript10
ios10
bigquery10
react-native10
typescript10
typescript-types10
firestore10
firebase-db10
mobile10
typescripts10
firebase-database10
firebase10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CSFrequency/react-firebase-hooks
Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
React Hooks for Firebase.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 7 reviews, 289 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris made several contributions focused on enhancing the `react-firebase-hooks` library. Their work included refactoring authentication and database hooks by introducing features like an `initialising` parameter, correctly inserting values, and returning data snapshots. A significant portion of their work involved converting code to TypeScript, updating naming conventions, and adding support for submodules, effectively modernizing and improving the library's structure and type safety. They also added the first firestore hooks.
firebase-cloud-storagefirebase-databasefirebase-firestorefirebase-functionsreact-hooks
invertase/react-native-firebase-starter
Oct 2017 - May 2018
DEPRECATED: For RNFB v5 only.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:26 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on updating and maintaining the React Native Firebase starter project, upgrading it to newer versions of React Native and Firebase SDKs. Their contributions involved updating dependencies, modifying native code (Android and iOS) to integrate Firebase features such as Crashlytics, and configuring project settings. They also created a script to rename the project files, demonstrating a focus on project maintainability and automation.
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