Christopher Hicks
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChris Hicks is a founding engineer and principal software engineer with 14+ years building full-stack e-commerce platforms and checkout experiences across both monolithic and microservice architectures. He’s led engineering teams and product-aligned initiatives, shipping scalable Scala and Node/React systems that drove integrations with major clients and streamlined onboarding via Shopify and other platforms. At startups and larger firms he’s combined hands-on development (backend services, frontend UIs) with architecture and process leadership, championing practices like modular “Lots of Small Applications” and event-driven pipelines. Practical machine learning experience—integrating ML models into Elasticsearch, leveraging CLIP and Vision APIs for search, classification, and recommendations—complements his systems work. Based in New Jersey, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts (co-founding PhotoOp) with a knack for translating product goals into resilient, production-grade software. Colleagues rely on him for clear communication and cross-functional collaboration that turns complex requirements into shipping features.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
Github Skills (49)
handlebars10
apidoc10
templating10
api-proxy9
jsinterop9
api-builder9
code-generator8
code-generation8
git-tag8
scala8
json-data8
react-router6
rest-api6
api6
rest6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
flowcommerce/node-sdk
May 2016 - Oct 2019
node apidoc clients
Contributions:138 commits, 21 PRs, 113 pushes in 3 years 5 months
apidoc
chrhicks/dotfiles
May 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 7 years 9 months
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