Chris Rafuse
Agentic Systems Architect Full-Stack Engineer at Rivertide Systems LLC
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Rafuse is an Agentic Systems Architect and full-stack engineer with 10+ years building durable, production-grade web and AI systems that replace manual workflows and cut operational waste. He combines hands-on frontend and backend chops—React/Next.js, TypeScript, Node, Python—with platform expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, vector DBs and multi-agent orchestration to deliver measurable ROI for enterprise clients. Known for shipping pragmatic, maintainable solutions, he treats AI as leverage under "Human-in-Command" guardrails rather than a silver bullet, and has delivered patentable GenAI workflows and voice/semantic pipelines in production. A former senior leader at NTT DATA and current founder-style architect at Rivertide Systems, he pairs team mentorship and architecture discipline with the willingness to roll up his sleeves and code. Rooted in design and industrial thinking from UBC and Emily Carr, he blends product taste with engineering rigor to build systems that hold up beyond demo day.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Industrial Design Industrial Design Photography and 3D Computer Graphics, Diploma of Industrial Design Industrial Design Photography and 3D Computer Graphics at Emily Carr University of Art and DesignBachelor of Design Computer Science and Anthropology., Bachelor of Design Computer Science and Anthropology. at The University of British Columbia
English
Github Skills (13)
mozilla9
gecko9
git-mirror9
mercurial9
firefox8
shutdown8
firefox-addon7
git-clone6
git5
thunderbird5
cli2
javascript2
browser2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chrafuse/gecko-dev
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
repositoriesmercurialsubmitgit-mirrorus-en
chrafuse/loop
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 256 pushes, 70 branches in 6 months
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