Summary
Chris Hale is a Director of Engineering with 12+ years building and leading teams to deliver full-stack web and cloud-native systems. He combines deep backend expertise in Node, Go and PHP with a decade of JavaScript UI work using React, Angular and Vue, and pairs that with hands-on DevOps and cloud orchestration experience across AWS, containers and CI/CD. Chris has a track record of joining projects as the first engineer, architecting APIs and UIs from scratch, and evolving platforms into production-ready SaaS—most recently leading an international team to build an AI-driven financial-crime detection product. He’s known in the industry as a practical “fixer” who reduces technical debt, codifies developer workflows (Docker, Codespaces, GitHub Actions) and implements robust automated testing pipelines to enable continuous delivery. Based in Kalispell, Montana, he blends startup agility with enterprise rigor, often stepping into hybrid roles that span hands-on coding, architecture and people leadership. An early adopter of Go and microservices patterns, he routinely prototypes next-generation architectures while keeping delivery velocity high.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Management of Information Systems, BBA Management of Information Systems at Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
English, Spanish