# Christopher Bopp > Engineering @ Check Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/christopherbopp ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Check Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area As an engineer on the Growth team at Check, I'm working on solutions that take the headache out of setting up payroll. ### Software Engineer @ Check Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States ### Front-End Software Engineer II - Dataselector @ NielsenIQ Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States As a developer on NielsenIQ's Dataselector team, I am contributing to the central component of the company's new report-building platform. I am working to build out new features that involve collaboration with both other front-end teams and service teams, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the report-building process. - Took ownership of several epics, encompassing the development of new front-end components, communicating with Product Owners and UX Designers, refactoring existing components, and providing support to service teams when relevant modifications were necessary ### Software Engineer - Emerging Leaders Program @ NielsenIQ Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, Illinois, United States As a Technology member of NielsenIQ's ELA program, I've had the opportunity to experience numerous projects, resulting in a holistic familiarity with the functions that support the development and maintenance of a SAAS platform. The roles played for those projects include Front-End Developer, Dev-ops Engineer, Software Architect, Full-Stack Developer, and Product Manager. Full Stack Developer - Pricing and Promotions - Built innovative tool which generates Pricing and Promotion recommendations for clients based on historical sales and promotions data - Technologies used: Angular, RxJS, NgRx, Karma, Jasmine, Spring Boot, Snowflake, and MongoDB Software Architect - Pricing and Promotions - Architected a system to surface alerts from isolated tool to the next generation platform’s existing Alerts infrastructure - Technologies used: MongoDB, Spring Boot, Snowflake, and Azure Blob Storage Product Manager & Technology Liaison - WalkMe - Translated feature functionality into dev work to integrate WalkMe technology into NIQ Discover's Front-End - Configured WalkMe with identity service to surface NPS surveys to specific clients - Worked with NielsenIQ security team to integrate user data into WalkMe services while adhering to GDPR regulations Dev-Ops Engineer - Metadata Services - Owned CICD pipeline for a Metadata search services team - Developed pipeline adhering to company's Dev-Ops principles - Technologies used: Jenkins, Terraform, Azure Cloud Services, Docker, ElasticSearch, Snowflake, and Spring Boot Front-End Developer - Discover - Built a POC for an overhauled version of our flagship data platform, which, after completion, would go on to serve thousands of NielsenIQ's clients - Communicated with Product Managers and UX Designers on acceptance criteria throughout sprints - Presented bi-weekly progress demo's to Project leadership - Technologies used: Angular, RxJS, NgRx, Karma, and Jasmine ### Independent Contractor @ access.mobile International, Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 - Improved Rakefile for parsing and uploading data from Azure Blob to Postgres DB by implementing duplicate prevention - Developed Rakefile for removing duplicate patient data entries in Postgres DB ### Product Management Intern @ IBM Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area - Set up and simulated standard ops management tasks for multiple databases including DB2, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB on IBM’s cloud-native Kubernetes container platform - Recommended improvements for IBM’s Kubernetes platform based on the corresponding experience on IBM’s non containerized cloud platform - Composed guide for creating and operating database deployments on IBM’s Kubernetes platform ### Machine Shop Manager @ Northwestern University Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Evanston, Illinois - Facilitated the training of the ~500 students in the freshman engineering class on the use of machine tools in the shop - Managed 40+ other student trainers employed by the machine shop - Designed programs for other student trainers aimed at improving their proficiency in the machine shop, leading to a more safety conscious, efficient, experienced, and overall higher quality shop staff - Implemented organizational structures for shift sign ups, promotion requirements, and skill development projects - Tracked and allocated $45,000 budget towards payroll, purchasing new supplies, etc. - Began as student trainer and moved up to manager position after 1½ years ### Embedded Software Engineering Intern @ Life Fitness Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Chicago Area - Created a script to upload Google Test results to web-based test case management software (Testrail), which significantly reduces the time and labor involved in running unit tests - Wrote guides on topics such as Google’s test framework and built applications to interact with Testrail’s API - Developed a suite of unit tests for the codebase of one of Life Fitness’ platforms to be used for future testing ### Assistant Powertrain Lead and Head of Recruitment @ Northwestern University BAJA SAE Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Evanston, IL Baja is a group that designs, manufactures, constructs, and competes an off-road racing vehicle every year. - Orchestrated powertrain redesign changing from previous CVT to more modular and lighter CVT - Designed cooling system for CVT, CVT protection, gearbox mounting, axles, and engine mounting - As assistant to the power train lead delegated tasks and monitored/ assisted 6 other team members working on various projects related to powertrain - As head of recruitment interviewed 20+ candidates for a limited number of positions on the team and trained said candidates on machine shop skills as well as basic solidworks skills ### Mechanical Engineering Intern @ Turner Construction Company Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New York City - Collaborated with other interns in the design of “Turner City”, a 3D model of projects worked on by Turner in the past year - Communicated with Turner construction sites around the world to acquire construction plans and elevations for design use - Facilitated weekly calls with management including VP of Communications, Chris McFadden ### Mechanic @ Rennwerke Porsche Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 - Regularly performed full inspections on vehicles - Communicated with customers regarding issues with vehicles - Removed multiple engines in need of repair - Organized work records and vehicle reports ### Mechanic @ Performance Plus Service Station Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 - Replaced non-operational components including but not limited to alternators, A/C compressors, spark plugs, and distributors - Disassembled engine and replaced intake gaskets as final projects - Frequently interacted with customers coming in for repairs. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Northwestern University Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ### Bronxville High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christopher-m-bopp --- Source: https://flows.cv/christopherbopp JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/christopherbopp/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01