Summary
Chris Mayer is a Full Stack Developer with nine years of software experience and a prior decade-plus career as a pharmaceutical research scientist, blending rigorous experimental thinking with pragmatic engineering. He builds end-to-end web applications using modern front-end frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, Svelte) and TypeScript, paired with Python/Flask, GraphQL, and relational or graph databases on the backend. Comfortable with data work and GenAI tooling—Jupyter, Pandas, OpenAI and LangChain—he surfaces insights and ships tooling that turn complex datasets into business value. At companies from Bristol-Myers Squibb to Travelers, he’s delivered in both research-heavy and production environments, bringing an uncommon fluency in science and software. Based in Waltham, MA, he favors practical, test-driven development and cloud-native deployments while continuously learning new frameworks and data approaches.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry, Bachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry at Lewis & Clark College