# Chris Axon

> Research Software Engineering and AI Engineering

Location: Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chrisaxon

Full stack and AI engineering. Familiar with HPC systems.

Seeking software engineering roles in the Boston Area.

## Work Experience
### Senior Research Software Engineer @ Harvard University
Jan 2023 – Present | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Full Stack Engineer @ Leela AI
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Developed features at an ai-powered video analytics company

### Full Stack Engineer @ Multi Technologies
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Visual programming for AI content generation. Full stack development using React, TypeScript, Firebase and Express.  

* Built features and pages for the web application and express server
* Made software architecture decisions
* Designed and optimize build process
* Communicated and collaborate with engineers across time-zones
* Wrote clear, extensible, well-documented, typed, and tested code

### Lead App Engineer @ Viva Translate
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Lead app engineer at an early-stage startup improving English email communication for Spanish-speaking Central-American freelancers. Built and published a Chrome extension which extended the Gmail UI, offering in-email translation and email composition suggestions. 

* Sole developer of frontend code, project structure, build pipeline, analytics, and RESTful API
* Managed timelines and deliverables for concurrent frontend development tasks
* Technologies: Node.js, Typescript, React, Bash, Jira, Postman

### Full Stack Engineer @ Copysmith
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Early engineer at a fast-paced startup using AI to generate text for copywriters. Developed frontend and backend features, deployed and debugged the production app, optimized Docker builds, and built integrations with third-party API’s.

* Collaborated on a multidisciplinary, Agile team as the company grew from 4 to 15 people
* Built and maintained a tool enabling customer support to interact with client data safely and efficiently
* Technologies: Node.js, Typescript, React, MongoDB, Docker, Google Compute, Bash, Github CI/CD

### Computer Science Tutor @ McGill Computer Science Undergraduate Society
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Tutored 30+ students on topics ranging from functional programming to graph theory.

### Summer Research Intern (2015, 2016, 2018) @ Boston Children's Hospital
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
Lab intern involved in research of triggered drug release devices. Explored utility of sono- and photo-sensitizers. Summers of 2015, 2016, 2018.

* Performed in vitro and in vivo experiments. 
* Mentored junior interns


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science
McGill University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Newton North High School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/caxon

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Source: https://flows.cv/chrisaxon
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Last updated: 2026-03-22