Christopher Hegre
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Hegre is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building performant, developer-friendly front-end systems across startups and scale-ups. He has driven UX and tooling work at BigCommerce (contributing to the popular Cornerstone theme and the Stencil framework) and shipped reliability-focused monitoring tools as a team lead at Meta. Comfortable across React, Ember, Angular and Node.js, he has optimized build systems, reduced runtime costs, and implemented real-time UIs handling large websocket-driven datasets. Now at Datadog, he continues to blend hands-on implementation with mentoring and cross-functional collaboration to improve developer productivity and observability. Based in Bordeaux, he pairs practical full-stack instincts with a penchant for reusable component design and measurable performance wins. An early contributor to production themes that now support high-volume commerce, he brings both product-sensitivity and engineering rigor to front-end platform challenges.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Appalachian State University
English, French
Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
handlebars10
templating10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bigcommerce/cornerstone
Feb 2015 - Jun 2016
The BigCommerce Cornerstone theme
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:554 commits, 23 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the front-end development of the BigCommerce Cornerstone theme. Their work involved creating the initial theme structure, implementing various UI components, and modifying existing HTML templates. The user demonstrated proficiency in utilizing Handlebars templating for rendering dynamic content, as well as implementing product options and custom file uploads. They also worked on the styling and theming of different page elements.
bigcommerceecommercecornerstone
hegrec/baseraiders
Mar 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:29 commits, 1 branch in 2 months
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