Christopher Oden
Senior Technical Architect at Drupal/Ubercart
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Oden is a Senior Technical Architect with 25+ years of engineering and leadership experience designing scalable web platforms and research-grade technical systems. He currently leads a global team of 60+ engineers at Johnson & Johnson, overseeing architecture, CI/CD, deployments and long-term sustainability for a Drupal-based platform supporting hundreds of brand sites. Equally at home in enterprise React/Node stacks and legacy scientific programming, he has built LMSs, lab automation, signal-processing research tools and patent-backed visual inspection systems. An active open-source contributor and co-creator of BodilessJS, he also maintains widely used Drupal/Ubercart modules deployed by thousands of sites. Christopher’s background in theater and an MFA in acting gives him uncommon strengths in communication, stakeholder engagement and leading cross-disciplinary teams. Based in New York, he blends deep technical breadth with a pragmatic focus on operational excellence and accessibility-driven product design.
14 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Yale UniversityM.F.A., Acting, M.F.A., Acting at American Conservatory Theater
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Github Skills (91)
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react10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wodenx/Bodiless-JS
Jan 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:95 reviews, 63 PRs, 947 pushes in 3 years 7 months
wodenx/dxp-proto
Feb 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 129 pushes, 11 branches in 3 months
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