Kris Fields
Engineering Manager at Winnie
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKris Fields is an engineering manager and former full-stack consultant with 13 years of experience building and scaling web platforms using Python/Django, React, PostgreSQL, Celery, and AWS. Currently leading engineering at Winnie, he combines hands-on architecture and code review with team coaching to deliver data-driven marketplace features for parents and providers. His background includes founding an early reviews site, leading API design for fitness management software, and repeatedly shipping production services from scratch—SMS, transcription, financial, and social-aggregation platforms. Comfortable across the stack and ops, he bridges Dev and Ops with Chef, Nginx/Gunicorn, and AWS deployments while experimenting with state management alternatives like MobX. Based in Cincinnati, he brings entrepreneurial instincts and a pragmatic focus on reliable, maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Wright State University
English
Stackoverflow
1,391reputation
147kreached
7answers
20questions
django-admin
top-5%
Github Skills (80)
django-admin10
django9
api9
feincms9
eslint9
data-import9
ecmascript8
rest8
javascript8
python8
linter8
static-code-analysis8
browserslist8
admin8
react-redux7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
krisfields/django-starter
Jan 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
pythonskeletondjangodjango-skeletondjango-project
krisfields/django-baker
Feb 2015 - Jan 2017
Adds a management command that generates views, forms, urls, admin, and templates based off the contents of models.py
Contributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 11 months
urlspythonadmindjangomanagement-command
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