Summary
Chris Trude is a tech lead and full-stack engineering leader with 11 years of professional experience and 14 years of UI development rooted in a Visual Arts degree, blending design sensibility with cloud-native engineering. He has driven UI architecture and SaaS modernization at enterprise scale—rewriting undocumented services, building next-gen CI/CD pipelines, and finding cost-saving cloud efficiencies while maintaining cohesive UX and onboarding flows. As an empathetic manager and certified Scrum Master/PO, he grows teams through mentorship, career coaching, and cross-team coordination to deliver complex integrated releases. Hands-on in Angular, TypeScript, GraphQL, RxJS and DevOps tooling (Jenkins/Groovy, GitLab CI, SAM/CloudFormation), he uniquely spans icon-level design to platform release management. Based in Wake Forest, NC, he combines an artist’s attention to UX with pragmatic engineering leadership that prioritizes people as the multiplier for technical success.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Visual Arts, Bachelor of Science Visual Arts at SUNY New Paltz
English