Chris Mendis
Front-End Engineer at Amazon
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Mendis is a seasoned Front-End Engineer and technical leader with 12 years of experience designing and shipping web products for B2C and B2B companies in technology, media, and marketing. He blends a Computer Science foundation with hands-on expertise in modern front-end architecture—React, Webpack, server-side rendering, testing—and has led teams through acquisitions and platform integrations. At Format he grew and managed distributed front-end teams, drove modernization efforts, and supported hiring and onboarding of remote engineers; he now applies that craft at Amazon. Chris prioritizes humane team processes, psychological safety, and purposeful work, and enjoys taking creative concepts from ideation to launch. Comfortable both solo and cross-functional, he pairs rigorous technical judgment with practical product sensibilities around usability and content management. An early adopter of front-end best practices, he has a track record of improving performance, test coverage, and developer experience across legacy and modern stacks.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Learning-by-Doing: User Testing, Learning-by-Doing: User Testing at Nielsen Norman Group WorkshopResidency, Interactive Art & Entertainment Programme, Residency, Interactive Art & Entertainment Programme at Habitat New Media Lab at the Canadian Film CentreHon. B.Sc., Computer Science, Hon. B.Sc., Computer Science at University of Toronto - University of St. Michael's College
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (93)
displays10
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nodemon10
reason-react10
bookmarklet10
perfect9
javascript9
shell9
sketching9
twitter-bootstrap9
python9
collaboration9
google-tag-manager9
dedicated9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
4ormat/scribe
Jan 2015 - Feb 2021
A rich text editor framework for the web platform
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
web-platformwysiwygjavascriptrich-text-editorrich-text
blameyourbrother/blameyourbrother.github.io
Mar 2014 - Jul 2022
Public Web site of Blame Your Brother
Contributions:182 commits, 48 pushes, 4 issues in 8 years 5 months
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