Chris Hicks
Founding Engineer at Virgil Data
Barnegat Township, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Hicks is a founding engineer and principal software engineer with 14+ years building full-stack e-commerce platforms and checkout experiences across both monolithic and microservice architectures. He’s led engineering teams and product-aligned initiatives, shipping scalable Scala and Node/React systems that drove integrations with major clients and streamlined onboarding via Shopify and other platforms. At startups and larger firms he’s combined hands-on development (backend services, frontend UIs) with architecture and process leadership, championing practices like modular “Lots of Small Applications” and event-driven pipelines. Practical machine learning experience—integrating ML models into Elasticsearch, leveraging CLIP and Vision APIs for search, classification, and recommendations—complements his systems work. Based in New Jersey, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts (co-founding PhotoOp) with a knack for translating product goals into resilient, production-grade software. Colleagues rely on him for clear communication and cross-functional collaboration that turns complex requirements into shipping features.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
Github Skills (64)
apidoc10
handlebars9
mustache9
jsinterop9
templating9
client-library8
git-tag8
json-data8
api-proxy8
api-client7
json7
api7
api-builder7
react-router6
rest-api6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chrhicks/dotfiles
May 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 7 years 9 months
chrhicks/apidoc-generator-javascript
Oct 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 44 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
javascriptgeneratorsapidoc
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