# Christian R.

> Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Blank Street
Jan 2025 – Present | Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Develop and maintain core features of the Blank Street mobile app using Flutter, delivering smooth cross-platform performance and scalable UI architecture.
- Build and deploy backend services in TypeScript + Node.js, integrating APIs that power customer ordering, and in-store logistics.
- Collaborate with product, design, and operations teams to improve user experience and ensure seamless interactions between mobile and backend systems.
- Design and build immersive Flutter applications for marketing activations and event-based brand experiences, blending software engineering with creative storytelling.
- Implement clean code practices, performance optimizations, and CI/CD pipelines to support a fast-growing engineering environment.

### React Native Developer @ Street FC
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
- Collaborate with the lead engineer to conceptualize and execute innovative features for our cross-platform React Native mobile application on iOS and Android.
- Designed and Implemented features that automated employee workload.
- Spearheaded the development employee tools, enhancing overall company efficiency, customer experience, and streamlining operations across departments.

### Software Engineer @ Billtrust
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | United States
- Develop code and write automated unit tests for our customer-facing web applications, back-end data processors, internal applications, and testing tools
- Leveraged Agile techniques with engineering, quality assurance, and other teams to build web products utilizing Typescript and Angular 10+.
- Implemented real user monitoring tools for the production application, allowing for production-level issues to be identified instantly.
- Partnered with project managers and engineers from different teams to build backend support for cloud database service products
Maintained cloud native services that support 20+ billion dollars annually of B2B payments

### Blockchain Research Engineer @ Genesis
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
- Worked closely with the VP of cryptography and researched several cryptocurrencies protocols for suitability in their production environment.
- Identified patterns in different cryptocurrency implementations to find similarities to promote code reuse.
- Researched cryptographic primitives that power blockchain technology and implemented custodial solutions for the transfer of cryptocurrency from one blockchain participant to another.
- Tasked to effectively communicate new information to production-level engineers.
- Worked with a group of dedicated researchers to design and code proof-of-concept custody solutions for a wide range of cryptocurrencies using Python, TypeScript, and JavaScript.


## Education
### Computer Science in Computer Software Engineering
Drexel University

### Hunter College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christian2001
- Portfolio: https://www.christianthedev.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13