Summary
Christopher Chaney is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Austin with two decades of experience designing and delivering enterprise and web applications across retail, healthcare, and SaaS domains. He currently drives architecture and engineering at The Home Depot after leading development teams and product engineering at MarketChorus, PCCI, and Inspirus, where he built clinical dashboards, employee recognition SaaS, and risk services. A hands-on architect fluent in Java, Spring ecosystem, RESTful services, and front-end frameworks, he has repeatedly translated complex business needs into scalable, production-ready systems. Known for mentoring teams and introducing new technologies, he brings rare continuity from early J2EE and middleware work to modern cloud-oriented architectures. Behind the scenes he blends deep systems experience with a practical focus on observability and maintainability that helps large organizations reduce technical debt while shipping features.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer