Christopher Nies
Staff Software Engineer at Freenome
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Nies is a Staff Software Engineer based in Seattle with 13 years of hands-on experience specializing in software quality, test automation, and developer-facing infrastructure. He has advanced from QA roles into senior SDET and staff engineering positions at companies including Amazon, Glowforge, and Freenome, building test frameworks in Java and Kotlin and designing firmware test interfaces. Chris brings a customer-obsessed mindset to quality, consistently reducing development friction while scaling test systems for embedded and cloud-connected products like Echo devices. He pairs practical automation skills (Selenium, TestRail, Behat experience earlier in his career) with leadership in shaping test strategy across teams. Notably, he transitioned from manual QA to lead initiatives that modernized test practices, making reliability a core part of the development lifecycle.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Information Systems at Drexel University
English
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Github Skills (2)
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Github contributions (4)
staterepme/State-Gov-Tracker
Sep 2012 - Jan 2013
Contributions:33 commits in 3 months
GreenSTEM-Network/GreenSTEM-JeeNode
Nov 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 3 months
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