Christopher Aitken
Australia, United States
Summary
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SeniorChristopher Aitken is a Principal Software Engineer with eight years of experience building serverless applications and cloud-native backends, primarily on AWS. He specializes in React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL, and increasingly designs custom AI integrations leveraging OpenAI GPT-4, Anthropic Claude, and AWS Bedrock. Based in Apalachicola, FL (previously active in New Orleans), he has led engineering efforts and shipped MVPs and production systems for fintech, sales productivity, and social trading platforms. Christopher balances hands-on implementation with advisory and open-source involvement, currently contributing to projects at 42 Macro, Equalify, and SwiftyNote. Known for turning complex integrations into pragmatic systems, he brings a business-facing BBA in Computer Science from the University of Florida to his technical leadership.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
homekit10
node-red10
homebridge9
iot8
home-automation8
tuya7
arduino7
nodejs7
cloud-services6
nodes5
siri5
esphome4
firmware1
avr1
audio1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
caitken-com/MultiFunctionButton
Jun 2018 - Feb 2020
Arduino Multi-function button library
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 8 months
arduino
caitken-com/node-red-contrib-daikin-api
Apr 2023 - Oct 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 5 comments in 2 years 6 months
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