Christopher Jativa
Sr. Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Jativa is a senior full-stack software engineer with 7 years of experience building 0-to-1 products, from product specification through deployment, with a strong emphasis on cloud-native architectures and stakeholder-driven solutions. He has led engineering efforts at organizations from nimble startups to enterprise teams, most recently at The Walt Disney Company and Webflow, and previously steered product and infrastructure at the Barnes Foundation. Proficient across Node.js, Python, React/TypeScript, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch and AWS Serverless patterns, he combines backend analytics work (ClickHouse/Python) with rich front-end experiences like drag-and-drop canvases and reporting dashboards. He’s comfortable converting high-level business requirements into technical specs, project plans and operational deployments, and has hands-on experience refactoring legacy systems into cost-efficient serverless architectures. Based in Philadelphia, Chris is also a bird enthusiast who writes about engineering and side projects at zerochass.io, reflecting a continual curiosity beyond his day job.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Biology Physical Therapy/Therapist, Biology Physical Therapy/Therapist at Clarkson UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at SUNY New PaltzBachelor of Science - Information Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science - Information Systems Engineering at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (72)
javascript10
frontend10
react10
declarative9
user-interface9
typescript9
nodejs-client8
visitors8
web-application7
editor7
electron7
admin7
vscode-extension7
mongodb7
microsoft7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cjativa/Zerochass
May 2020 - Oct 2024
The code repository for Zerochass — an online learning platform for web development and software engineering.
Contributions:17 PRs, 91 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years 6 months
learning-platformjavascriptweb-applicationonline-learningcode-repository
BarnesFoundation/acme-ticketing-client
May 2020 - Apr 2023
NodeJS client for the ACME Event Management API
Contributions:6 reviews, 5 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years 11 months
apievent-managementnodejsapi-managementnodejs-client
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