Christopher Reid
Lead Developer at On This Spot
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolChristopher Reid is a Lead Developer with 11 years of hands-on experience building cross-platform apps, backend services, and distributed systems—currently driving the technical vision for On This Spot, a React Native/OpenGL historical tour app with Node.js and Rust backends. He blends product-minded engineering with practical systems work, shipping everything from mobile experiences to GraphQL services and production-ready microservices. Christopher has a track record of integrating complex data pipelines and third-party systems (Shopify, Strava, accounting APIs) and has architected real-time platforms for high-throughput market data. A former bootcamp mentor and longtime self-taught tinkerer who started hosting game servers at 13, he pairs pragmatic mentorship with curiosity-driven exploration. He values balanced teams and cultivates roles that mix maintenance, problem solving, and creative discovery so engineers stay engaged and inventive. Outside code he brings unexpected perspective from years in landscaping and caregiving, which inform his thoughtful approach to design and collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy at University of VictoriaJunior Developer, Web Development Bootcamp, Junior Developer, Web Development Bootcamp at Lighthouse Labs
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
animated10
google-maps10
native-module10
camera10
nodejs10
expo10
frontend10
scanning10
windows10
react-native-module10
mbaas10
google-sign-in10
django-models10
mobile10
react-navigation10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
allthetime/nodeTwilioSMS
Sep 2014 - Jun 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push in 4 years 10 months
allthetime/react-navigation.github.io
Aug 2019 - Jan 2025
Home of the documentation and other miscellanea
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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