Summary
Chris Wolf is a Full-Stack Software Engineer in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience building interactive web apps and microservice-driven products using React, Next.js, Gatsby, MongoDB Atlas, Contentful, and Auth0. As a freelance engineer and former Co‑Founder & CTO at PlayWell, he blends hands-on development with product-minded design, applying game design principles to improve onboarding and engagement for enterprise clients. Comfortable partnering with designers and stakeholders, he has a track record of taking projects from concept through launch and iterating based on real user testing. His background spans nonprofit and political web work to experimental game and toy prototypes, reflecting a rare mix of pragmatic web engineering and creative systems thinking. Outside of work he designs tabletop games, a hobby that informs his user-centric approach to interaction and motivation.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Sake Scholar, Sake Scholar at Sake Scholar Course
Bachelor's degree, Concentration in Interactive Media, Bachelor's degree, Concentration in Interactive Media at New York University
Certified Sake Professional, Advanced Sake Professional, Certified Sake Professional, Advanced Sake Professional at Sake Education Council
English, Japanese