Summary
Chris Dempewolf is a founder and backend engineer with 11 years of experience designing resilient, serverless and distributed systems for both startups and enterprise teams. He built Athena Math and a production AWS serverless stack (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront) with automated CI/CD and robust observability, and has deep hands-on experience implementing secure in-app purchase verification and idempotent, retry-safe workflows. Previously he reduced batch analytics to real-time with Kafka and ElasticSearch, architected high-throughput ingestion systems persisting social data to HBase, and standardized CI/CD and mapping workflows to cut developer friction. A former English teacher turned engineer, he brings strong communication, mentorship, and documentation habits to technical leadership and product-focused engineering. Based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he balances practical, production-grade tooling with a founder’s instinct for user conversion and reliability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
TEFL Education, TEFL Education at University of Arkansas
English, Japanese, Spanish