Summary
Chris Sweigard is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building production web and mobile products across startups and enterprise teams. He’s shipped diverse platforms—from a social recommendation engine and a craft-beer marketplace to secure BYOD workspaces and prepaid card processing—while leading cross-functional teams in release engineering, QA, and integrations. Technically hands-on across Java, JavaScript, Play2, Node.js, React Native, mobile frameworks and PostgreSQL, he blends full-stack development with operational rigor. Chris mentors engineers and has repeatedly rebuilt and modernized products (most recently rewriting BeerXchange’s mobile apps and backend), showing a pragmatic focus on maintainability and shipping. Based in New York, he’s exploring ways to leverage generative AI like ChatGPT to boost product value and developer productivity.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University