Summary
Chris Jaynes is a Full-Stack JavaScript engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, production-grade web applications and game systems from his Bloomington, IL home office. He has led teams and architectures at companies like Savvy Apps, ClassDojo, and State Farm, shipping high-concurrency Node.js backends, real-time WebSocket engines, and interactive front-ends in React and Vue. Notable projects include designing a Cloud Functions/Redis-backed game platform that supported millions of concurrent users and a secure CDN for 3D assets using CloudFront and Lambda@Edge. A code-quality and developer-experience advocate, he routinely introduces linting, testing, CI/CD, and monorepos to raise engineering standards. He favors remote roles focused on education, R&D, and tooling, and in his spare time builds small games and tools you can try on his itch.io page.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale