Summary
Kris Rivera is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of focused frontend and full-stack experience, currently leading architecture and delivery at Rapid7 in the Washington DC–Baltimore area. He brings deep expertise in modern web stacks—Angular, TypeScript, RxJS and NgRx—paired with practical CI/CD and containerization skills using CircleCI and Docker. Kris has progressed from embedded and enterprise roles to lead developer positions, mentoring small teams and shaping product-facing frontends at DivvyCloud, MBO Partners, Pentaho, and Lockheed Martin. He combines strong engineering fundamentals from a Master’s in Computer Graphics with a track record of shipping resilient UI systems in security and data-focused products. Known for translating complex UI requirements into maintainable, testable code, he also quietly drives developer productivity through build and deployment automation. Colleagues rely on him to balance pragmatic delivery with long-term maintainability across evolving codebases.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Graphics, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Graphics at University of Central Florida