Summary
Chris Frater is a versatile full-stack software engineer with about a decade of experience building and modernizing enterprise .NET systems, web applications, and developer-facing API samples. Currently at UKG, he brings deep C#/.NET expertise complemented by front-end skills (JavaScript, jQuery, CSS) and a polyglot background in Python, Node.js, Ruby and C++. His career spans financial services, cloud API sample engineering at Google, and earlier game and VR development with Unity/Unreal, giving him a rare mix of large-scale production experience and hands-on experimentation with cutting-edge immersive tech. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he has delivered scalable legacy migrations, custom testing frameworks, and full mobile/UI overhauls while moving between roles as developer, tester, and informal product/UX contributor. Based in Oakland, he combines a communicator’s training in rhetoric and journalism with technical craft to translate complex requirements into usable systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Rhetoric, 3.6, Bachelor's Degree, Rhetoric, 3.6 at University of California, Berkeley
University of California Santa Cruz