Chris Held
Engineering Director at Breakthrough
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Held is an engineering director with 11 years of hands-on and leadership experience building products across startups, consultancies, and enterprise clients. He excels at guiding cross-functional teams from concept to production, leveraging a broad tech toolkit that includes React, React Native, Node.js, TypeScript, Elixir, and Python. A longtime consultant, he's delivered solutions in logistics, sustainability, and healthcare, and is comfortable translating ambiguous business needs into practical technical plans that "get to yes." Chris is passionate about coaching engineers and communicating through writing, bringing a teacher's mindset to technical leadership. He combines deep full‑stack experience with a curiosity for new approaches and a track record of shipping systems that balance speed, quality, and real-world constraints.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Software Application Development, Software Application Development at ITT Technical Institute-Green Bay
Github Skills (13)
camera5
cordova-plugin5
javascript4
api4
java4
cordova4
rest4
interaction3
integrations3
dependency-injection3
loopback3
camera-preview2
objective-c2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chris-held/elixirforajsdev
Apr 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 15 commits, 4 PRs in 8 months
chris-held/littlest-library-api
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 32 PRs, 20 pushes in 21 days
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