Summary
Christopher Plummer is a Principal Engineer with 12 years of experience building front-end-first products and platforms for startups, agencies, and enterprise, currently leading engineering at Amazon from Cambridge, MA. He specializes in technical leadership—application architecture, system design, tech strategy, and mentoring—while remaining an active hands-on coder across React, Vue, Ruby on Rails, and AWS. At Amazon he led design-system efforts that saved $6M/year in headcount, drove accessibility programs and a11y tooling, and authored multi-year front-end strategy and automation that cut upgrade times from a week to two hours. He has deep experience launching customer-facing healthcare products (PillPack, Amazon Pharmacy), including a PWA that replaced an iOS app and improved NPS and self-service. Earlier work at agencies established accessibility standards and high-fidelity front-end engineering practices, and an unexpected pre-tech career in film production informs his collaborative, design-driven approach. He’s drawn to mission-oriented teams and progressive work models such as four-day weeks, and mentors engineers through promotions and technical growth.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Interactive Digital Media, Master of Arts - MA Interactive Digital Media at Northeastern University
Bachelor of Science - BS Communication and Media Studies, Bachelor of Science - BS Communication and Media Studies at Boston University