Summary
Christopher Beards is a Full Stack Software Engineer with eight years of experience building high-impact e-commerce and CMS features, currently advancing product and platform work at Clover. He combines a process-oriented mindset—shaped by a meditation practice—with pragmatic engineering, recently delivering a customizable purchasing system that raised conversions 43.5% and UI changes that reduced homepage bounces from 52% to 45%. Comfortable across React/TypeScript frontends and Kotlin/Spring Boot backends, he prioritizes accessibility, performance, and security while integrating international markets and migrating complex chatbot logic. Christopher mentors junior developers, explores AI-driven productivity improvements, and maintains hands-on craftsmanship even as he eyes a future move into engineering management. Based in Ocean City, MD, he brings practical experience with Contentful, Google Cloud, AWS, and SASS, and a track record of launching cross-functional features on time.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians, Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians at University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Computer Science, Computer Science at Lambda School