Chris Kiesz
Morning Baker at Sweet Adeline Bakeshop
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Kiesz is a versatile full-stack software engineer based in Berkeley with eight years of experience building user-focused web applications and shipping production releases. At Synthesis AI he learned Go rapidly, contributed across CLI, API, and content-generation pipelines, and delivered a feature that cut update times from 30 minutes to seconds—demonstrating a knack for performance and automation. He’s comfortable across Next.js, Nest, and ReactTS stacks and brings practical UX and CMS experience, having designed JSON-driven product inputs and streamlined content workflows. Earlier roles at D2iQ and App Academy emphasize his strengths in documentation-driven UX improvements, time-sensitive refactors, and teaching technical concepts. Unusually for an engineer, he combines this technical depth with advanced humanities training in German literature, which informs his attention to detail and communication when coordinating cross-functional teams.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) German Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) German Studies at California State University, FullertonMaster of Arts (M.A.) German Language and Literature, Master of Arts (M.A.) German Language and Literature at California State University, Long BeachGerman Literature of the Middle Ages, German Literature of the Middle Ages at University of BremenComputer Programming, Computer Programming at App Academy
german, middle high (ca.1050-1500), German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
dcos10
face-api9
face8
api7
api-documentation6
synthesis6
cloud-init4
vms4
aws4
xen4
google-cloud3
recipe3
bare-metal3
google-cloud-platform3
hugo3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ck4adventure/ck4adventure.github.io
Jan 2018 - Mar 2025
Personal Portfolio Site using Jekyll
Contributions:9 PRs, 166 pushes, 9 branches in 7 years 3 months
jekyll
ck4adventure/Landscapes
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:102 commits, 61 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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