Chris Cortez is a software engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable, healthcare-focused web and mobile systems from Chicago. He has led architecture and engineering efforts across startups—designing NestJS templates for rapid growth, authoring ~1K API unit tests, and delivering an AWS Lambda-driven messaging system that sends ~10K patient notifications daily. Proficient across the full stack (React, Node, Express, Postgres, Swift, Rails) he also builds CI/CD and CloudFormation automation to accelerate feature delivery. His work blends hands-on coding with mentorship and pragmatic database/API design, and he has experience integrating with EHRs and DoD authentication systems. Motivated by tech that improves human experience, he focuses on products that better healthcare and mental health outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
A small application that uses last.fm to find music liked by multiple people. Built on Ruby.
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 6 months
windowsrubymusicruby-onlast-fm
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