Summary
Chris Vasquez is a software engineer with 11 years of experience combining customer-facing roles and hands-on engineering to build reliable web applications using Python, JavaScript, React, SQL, and UNIX tooling. Currently at Sydecar, he brings a product-focused mindset honed through multiple technical and operational roles at Udacity where he progressed from student support to curriculum and software engineering. He has a track record of improving systems and workflows—evidenced by clearing a 3,200-ticket backlog and sustaining high CSAT—so he blends strong user empathy with pragmatic code delivery. Comfortable across Git, GitHub, HTML/CSS, and DevOps-adjacent tooling, he’s effective at shipping features and supporting production systems. Based in Nashville, he pairs retail and education operations experience from Microsoft and The Culinary Institute of America with technical fluency, making him adept at translating customer needs into maintainable software.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Roy C Ketcham Senior High School
Salesian High School
Udacity
English