Erik Christensen
Technical Lead Manager at Teambridge
South San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Christensen is a Technical Lead Manager with 15+ years of engineering experience and over seven years of progressive leadership scaling high-performance teams in fast-paced ecommerce environments. A former Navy submarine officer, he brings calm crisis leadership and incident-command experience to complex, high-stakes technical programs. At BigCommerce he combined hands-on engineering with product leadership to ship IPO-critical features, lead the Page Builder and Catalyst initiatives, and help shepherd the Makeswift acquisition through technical diligence and integration. He is deeply technical—proficient in performance engineering, microservices and front-end optimization—and continues to contribute code, including UX and performance improvements to BigCommerce’s popular Cornerstone theme. Known for mentoring talent and building high-velocity cultures, Erik pairs strategic architecture work with practical delivery, including prototyping cutting-edge Next.js prerendering approaches. Based in South San Francisco, he blends disciplined operational rigor from military service with a builder’s curiosity for developer tooling and platform performance.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Mathematical Computer Science, Master’s Degree Mathematical Computer Science at University of Illinois ChicagoBachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Philosophy, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Philosophy at Kenyon College
Github Skills (12)
html10
theme-development10
javascript10
lazy-loading10
bigcommerce10
frontend10
lazyload10
optimisation10
optimization10
css9
responsive-design9
lodash8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bigcommerce/cornerstone
Oct 2017 - Oct 2020
The BigCommerce Cornerstone theme
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 28 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Erik primarily focused on improving the user experience and performance of the BigCommerce Cornerstone theme. Their contributions involved migrating from the `jquery-zoom` library to `easyzoom` for image magnification, implementing lazy loading for images across multiple components, and optimizing carousel performance by switching to the 'anticipated' lazy load option in the Slick library. They also introduced a new configuration option for product view thumbnail sizes and refactored code to use `_.includes` instead of `_.contains`.
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christensenep/cornerstone
Oct 2017 - Mar 2022
The BigCommerce Cornerstone theme
Contributions:54 pushes, 17 branches in 4 years 6 months
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