Chris Erwin
Director Of Engineering at ShopVision
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Erwin is a pragmatic, hands-on Director of Engineering with 10+ years building and scaling backend systems for product-led companies, currently leading engineering for an AI-driven e-commerce intelligence platform. He specializes in aligning product intent with technical reality—shaping problems, offering architectural guidance, and stepping into complex decisions without blocking team autonomy. His background spans founding startups and shipping production systems at streaming and design-focused companies, where he drove platform stability, billing refactors, and multi-tenant architectures. Known for staying deep in the technical weeds when it matters, he focuses on maintainable, reliable systems and developer enablement that let teams move fast. Based in Whitby, Ontario, he blends product sensitivity with engineering rigor and a track record of turning research and prototypes into production-grade services.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Multimedia Design, Multimedia Design at Durham College
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Github Skills (44)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
elemenohq/elemeno-node
Aug 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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