Summary
Christian Ayala is a senior software engineer and hands-on engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and shipping full-stack web and mobile products from startups to enterprise. He has led teams through complete product rewrites and cloud platform ownership—driving a Pathway rebuild that processed over $50M in settlement funds and owning Azure architectures and CI/CD across multiple environments. Equally comfortable coding and mentoring, he has taught computer science courses at SMU, started internal mentorship programs, and run internship classes to grow technical talent. His background spans React/Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, SQL/Azure, and mobile frameworks, and he pairs pragmatic project management with deep technical ownership. Based in Dallas, he combines a professor’s clarity with a delivery-focused engineering mindset that repeatedly turns complex requirements into production outcomes.
13 years of coding experience