# Christopher Ferris

> Software Engineer

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/christopherferris

## Work Experience
### Sr. Full Stack Engineer @ Vitally.io
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Worked in a fast-paced early-stage startup environment on Vitally’s SAAS product as part of the app team responsible for customizable global app navigation, Notion-style collaborative docs, user dashboards, NPS, Google Forms-style user Surveys, and other product areas. Tech stack included Typescript, React/Redux, Postgres, Express & Nest.js 
- Built an email NPS feature with a quick turnaround time for a high-value client commitment
- Created new user experiences as part of a global app navigation overhaul
- Worked as part of a fully-remote team of 6, participating in daily standups, weekly team collaboration session, project/sprint planning, fixing high-urgency bugs, & occasional paired programming

### UI Developer/Designer @ Self employed
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Freelance & contract work, offering web development & UI design services

### Software Engineer - Frontend Platform @ Rover.com
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
- Maintained & built components for Rover’s React/React Native component library and cross-platform design system
- Wrote ESLint scripts to analyze and enforce coding standards & patterns across Rover’s front end
- Built and shipped greenfield React Native features, now a core part of Rover’s developer ecosystem

### Front End Engineer @ Avvo
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, WA
- Rebuilt the front end of Avvo’s high-volume messaging app in Vue.js on top of an Elixir back end
- Worked on converting sections of a legacy Ruby on Rails monolith codebase to React/SSR

### Software Engineer @ Moz
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area
- Set up, maintained, wrote components for, and fixed bugs in Moz’s CSS framework
- Integrated a CMS into Moz’s marketing site and learning resource, used by thousands to learn about SEO 
- Oversaw subsequent creation and maintenance of new CMS pages, configurable sections, modules and plugins

### Front End Developer @ Peach Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Seattle, WA
First front-end developer hired & core author/maintainer of Peach’s Angular.js-driven web app

### Front End Developer @ ZIIBRA, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Seattle
Worked closely with a small team of 12 to build new features and redesign existing features of ZIIBRA's subscription-based creator platform (similar to Pateron)

### Front End Developer/Designer @ DevHub
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Seattle, WA
Built and maintained sites for DevHub’s clients in Django/jQuery/LESS


## Education
### Certificate in Ruby on Rails Development
University of Washington
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013

### Interdisciplinary Visual Arts in Art
University of Washington
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chrisdfe
- Website: https://chrisdfe.github.io

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Source: https://flows.cv/christopherferris
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Last updated: 2026-03-29