# Chris Myers > Senior Software Engineer @ Flex Location: Meridian, Idaho, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/chrismyers A result driven Fullstack Software Engineer with a 10+ years success in leading high-performance teams and delivering innovative solutions in dynamic environments. React, React-Native, NodeJS, Typescript, GraphQL, Next.js, Docker, Postgres, AWS, MongoDB, NestJS, Nx, React-Query, Redis, Vite, TurboRepo, Fastify, Hapi, Splunk, Redux-Toolkit, React-Testing Library, Webpack, Jenkins, Greensock, Reanimated, Storybook, Azure ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Flex Jan 2024 – Present ### Staff Fullstack Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 • Designed and implemented NestJS notifications API and frontend, allowing users to send, receive, and manage notifications on their React-Native client; using Recoil, Apollo, Braze and Expo. • Built integration test environment with React-Testing Library for frontend, improving test coverage from 0% to over 40%. • Advocated for and implemented CodeGen code generation for GraphQL queries, mutations, hooks, and types. • Upgraded NodeJS, ensuring TurboRepo stack and Azure/Jenkins build pipeline were compliant with update. • Fixed over 50 bugs to ensure React-Native app was production-ready for initial release to audience. ### Senior Frontend Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 • Collaborated on new automotive initiative, ensuring a performant Next.js frontend in hydrating SSR data into React-Query. • Transferred to exclusive performance team because of outstanding achievements on item page team. • Recommended adoption of client state library Zustand to complement React-Query and improve performance, presenting ADR to platform team, which was roundly approved. • Led effort to implement Zustand integration; writing documentation and providing training. • Had zero regressions in refactoring large portions of code to improve Core Web Vitals FID metric. • Analyzed main thread for performance bottlenecks resulting in critical platform-specific functions being memoized, GraphQL queries refactored, and core code being refactored. • Led team of engineers to improve Core Web Vitals CLS metric; successfully moving virtually all Google Search Console URLs from “poor” to "good" within a tight deadline. • Investigated Splunk metrics looking for performance degradation, compiling findings in internal documentation, with recommendations on path forward. • Investigated CLS metrics, discovering incorrect Splunk reporting and how Google attributes CLS scores to individual pages. ### Senior Fullstack Software Engineer @ PlexTrac Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Boise, Idaho, United States • Headed frontend, worked to demonstrate leadership, ensured code quality through in-depth pull request reviews, crafted comprehensive style guide, presented weekly training sessions for all developers, and personally trained and mentored teammates. • Led research efforts and architected our Postgres ORM in Prisma. • Built CLI written in Go to initialize our dockerized application for on-prem clients. • Led research for bundler migration from Webpack to Vite. • Collaborated in custom-built role based access control (RBAC) modifications in a Hapi NodeJS multi-tenancy environment. • Built out integrations with third party clients using Redux-Toolkit and Hapi. • Led design and implementation for i18n internationalization with Redux Context API and NodeJS. • Built up and advocated for our GraphQL, CodeGen, Nexus, and Apollo based stack. Migrated endpoints from REST to GraphQL. • Constructed frontend test driven development suite with React-Testing Library. • Designed our application interface in Figma/Sketch and implemented with Ant; including client themed customizations, responsive navigation, icons creation, dark theme, and overall appearance. • Led multiple fullstack efforts to enhance our administrative and reporting functionality; employing React, Typescript, Apollo, Redux-Tookit on the client as well as Hapi and Nexus on backend, adhering to a SOLID domain-driven design. • Designed plugins for CKEditor text editor customizations. ### Lead Senior Fullstack Software Engineer @ AllSocial Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 • Built Instagram-like social media app with both React web and React-Native clients and NodeJS API. • Built up and directed team of 20+ engineers. • Brainstormed large portion of app’s feature set with company VPs, investors and stakeholders. • Headed up design, creating entire app’s UI/UX along with logo, icons, color palette, and graphics. • Stood up NodeJS/Mongo/Redis stack. • Built JWT-based user authentication. • Utilized AWS Lambdas. • Designed and implemented Instagram-like image editing component using Reanimated, complete with image filters, drawing tools, editable text, and stickers. • Built React/React-Native chat platform with GetStream’s chat backend. • Collaborated on components like feeds, user profiles, admin permissions, notifications, commenting, and post creation. ### Lead Senior Fullstack Software Engineer @ Strategic Media 21 Jan 2012 – Jan 2018 • Managed team of five developers building Instagram stories-like app in Backbone, Laravel, and MongoDB. • Built complex React web client for gathering metrics, compiling large amounts of data. • Designed and implemented real-time Twitter feed map with Web Sockets, Backbone, NodeJS and AWS. • Constructed customizable statistics application with Greensock animations, pulling in data from a variety of social media sources and internal data. • Built events map, complete with search, filtering and data aggregation within an embedded customized Google Map application. • Created header bidding advertising solutions for a variety of apps and websites, working closely with major demand partners like OpenX, Rubicon, Index Exchange, and Google; generating millions in ad revenues. • Worked with various CMS and CRMs like WordPress and Nationbuilder. • Designed and maintained a variety of websites and apps for blogs serving 40 million monthly pageviews. • Maintained multiple Facebook API based applications. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree Santa Clara University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/-chris-myers --- Source: https://flows.cv/chrismyers JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/chrismyers/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22