Christopher R
Software Engineer at WisdomAI
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChristopher R is a full-stack software engineer with eight years of experience building responsive frontends and robust backends using TypeScript, React/Next.js, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. He transitioned at NerdWallet from a frontend-focused role into full-stack responsibilities, shipping API endpoints, modernizing data fetching with GraphQL, improving observability with DataDog, and securing services with JWT-based auth. Comfortable on-call and in production incident triage, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a "don't repeat yourself" mindset that drives maintainable solutions and iterative process improvements. Now at WisdomAI, he continues to bridge user-facing experiences with backend reliability while enjoying deep technical dives—evidenced by past work in TensorFlow-based bioinformatics and Kafka-driven DevOps tooling. Outside of work he pursues varied curiosities from beekeeping to chess and volleyball, which reflect a collaborative, persistent problem-solving style.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (4)
tagging8
python6
travis2
sandbox1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chrisjrobles/odin-calculator
Nov 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
chrisjrobles/project-vending-machine
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
[WIP] A vending machine powered by open source contributions :atm:
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
open-source-contributionswipatmvending-machine
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