Christie Chirinos
Interior Design Intern at smbw, pllc
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristie Chirinos is a multidisciplinary product and design professional with 11 years of experience bridging ecommerce engineering, open-source WordPress development, and now interior design. She co-founded CalderaWP—author of the widely used Caldera Forms plugin—and has contributed back-end functionality like conditional logic and entry lifecycle hooks, demonstrating deep practical knowledge of web payments and form systems. After senior product roles at Liquid Web and JPMorgan Chase—where she led checkout and payment processor projects—she pivoted into design, earning an MFA in Interior Design and interning at architecture firms while bringing a data-informed, UX-minded approach to spaces. Based in Richmond, VA, Christie combines entrepreneurial grit, technical fluency, and studio practice to solve problems across product, code, and built environments. An under-the-radar strength: she regularly translates complex backend constraints into elegant user experiences, whether for checkout flows or physical interiors.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Management Information Systems, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Management Information Systems at Florida State UniversityMaster of Fine Arts Interior Design, Master of Fine Arts Interior Design at Virginia Commonwealth University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (6)
wordpress10
php10
forms10
database-design9
javascript6
git5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
CalderaWP/Caldera-Forms
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Drag and drop, responsive WordPress form builder.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 5 branches in 5 days
Contributions summary:Christie primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the WordPress form builder repository. Their contributions include implementing database updates, adding functionality for entry status changes and deletions, and creating features for conditional logic in form processing. They also added a new function to get the last update version and added hooks for the deletion and status change entry action.
form-builderwordpressdrag-and-dropbuilderform-builder-wordpress
CalderaWP/cf-popup
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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