# Chris St Pierre

> Software Engineer at Amazon

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chrisstpierre

SDE @ Amazon • Startup Consultant & Software Engineer, • UCLA B.sc. in Biophysics, minor in Bioinformatics, • Gilman Scholar.

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Harvard University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Founder @ Rhoket
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States
venture studio concept

### Senior Developer @ EHRPros
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Remote
Engineering lead for development of new HIPAA compliant WebRTC product.

### Backend Engineer @ Pogoseat, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Supported, maintained, and updated their ticket-processing platform, including 6 microservices, multi-region AWS Deployments, & custom DevOps practices. I also worked independently to build a completely new product which was quickly brought to market.

- Developed effective technical strategies that could meet business requirements without sacrificing technical quality
- Designed and developed Text-to-Buy, a white-labeled SMS chatbot with customer personalization that interfaced with NLP services as well as existing microservices
- Evaluated technical debt and refactored where beneficial
- Brought on and trained new engineers
- Took responsibility for the success and reliability of the existing platform as well as new product launches, from ideation to implementation

Technologies: Node (express), Mysql, Mongo, CoffeeScript (Hubot), Jenkins, OpenVPN, Linux, Apache, Vagrant, AWS (EC2/VPC/S3/Route 53), Dialogflow, Github

### Co-Founder @ Softhatch
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area & Other
I co-founded Softhatch with the mission of providing early stage startups greater technical competency.
- Oversaw and supported backend efforts.
- Strategized approach to the development of a product accelerator for non- technical founders
- Designed and executed business strategies for growth and development. Consulted with startups to define the feasibility of a proposal and suggest technical approaches.
- Interviewed and trained new engineers.
- Contributed to the development of effective DevOps practices 

Technologies: Elixir / Phoenix, Node / Express / NextJs / Meteor, GraphQL, Docker, AWS, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Docker, Redis, Serverless

### Backend Engineer / Consultant @ Feather
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
I was flown in from overseas on short notice and relied upon to build critical components of a new product in time for a set launch date.

- Brought greater insight into business operations by implementing temporal tables with PostgreSQL trigger functions to track historical data
- Expected to plug into the existing team and development process and be productive from day one.

Technologies: Typescript, Expressjs, PostgreSQL, React

### Research Assistant @ Bruins-in-Genomics (B.I.G.)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Contributed to ongoing genomics research using SNPs and voxel-wise analysis of Glioblastoma imaging

### Data Analyst @ Xing Laboratory of RNA Genomics and Bioinformatics
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
http://www.mimg.ucla.edu/faculty/xing/

### Lab Tech @ UCLA Biochemistry Lab
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Greater Los Angeles Area


## Education
### Minor in Bioinformatics
UCLA
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Biophysics
UCLA
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016

### Study Abroad in Biophysics
National University of Singapore
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014

### Study Abroad in Chinese Studies
National Taiwan Normal University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chris-st-pierre

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Last updated: 2026-03-23