Summary
Chris Laubacher is a user-focused frontend engineer with 12 years of experience who currently builds delightful, maintainable interfaces at Amazon Music. He has led end-to-end design system initiatives—shipping cross-platform React Native components, design tokens, Storybook docs, and a custom Figma plugin—while also driving adoption through tooling, guidelines, and mentorship. Past roles include scaling e-commerce and realtime systems at Saucey and Opendoor, where he improved conversions, observability, and mobile infrastructure. Chris blends product sensibility with engineering rigor, having owned migrations, analytics redesigns, and architectural plans that enabled incremental delivery with low regression risk. Based in Los Angeles with a BA from the University of Chicago, he brings a background in instructional design and teaching that shows in his emphasis on clear documentation and onboarding.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. English Cinema & Media Studies, B.A. English Cinema & Media Studies at University of Chicago
Villanova Preparatory School
Italian, French