Chris St. John
Founder, Cloud Architect at SystemsArchitect.io
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris St. John is a founder, cloud architect, and full-stack engineer with over two decades of experience building scalable web, e-commerce, and blockchain solutions across startups and enterprises. He blends hands-on development in TypeScript, Node.js, Python and React with deep AWS and serverless architecture expertise, and focuses now on AI integrations and Solana payment/NFT systems. As founder of SystemsArchitect.io he published four books and 100+ engineering articles, built a reusable cloud solutions framework, and maintains a practical emphasis on cloud audits, cost control and measurable metrics. At Verafy he led the architecture and majority of commits for an AI Swarm fact‑checking platform that integrates Solana token payments and public APIs, and previously served as senior/full‑stack lead at Nike on high‑scale commerce systems. Early career experience as an NASD‑licensed trader and longtime webmaster for MP3.com gives him uncommon fluency in both operational rigor and product-facing UX. He’s equally at home authoring best‑practice guides as he is shipping production demos and open‑source Solana integrations.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (43)
data-services9
mvc-architecture9
rack8
rad8
api8
filemaker8
rest7
restful7
rest-api7
mvc6
mvc-framework6
restful-api6
database-migrations4
rails4
ruby4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stjohncj/tools
Oct 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:6 pushes in 6 years 4 months
stjohncj/cli-colorize
Sep 2010 - Jan 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 1 push in 6 years 4 months
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