# Christopher Lagunilla

> Senior Software Engineer at PayPal

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/christopherlagunilla

I'm a full-stack software engineer in the Chicago area with experience working on client facing applications using Java/Spring with a focus on front-end development using ReactJS and strong design sensibilities for clean attractive user interfaces and well-composed user experiences.

My educational background also includes in-depth studies in Linguistics and American Sign Language, and my personal interests include language learning related endeavors in the educational technology space as well as following innovations in 3D printing and additive manufacturing.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2023 – Present | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Full Stack Engineer @ Retain.ai
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
As part of the Application Engineering team, I worked on building robust and user-friendly business intelligence dashboards to provide productivity metrics for varying user personas in the Customer Success space.

### Associate Software Engineer @ JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
With JPMorgan Chase's Global Technology Infrastructure teams, I worked on the firm's transition to Office 365, implementing a variety of applications, bridging cloud-based services with existing infrastructure.

### Software Engineer @ JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
As a full-stack engineer in the Commercial Banking division, I worked alongside our Commercial Real Estate teams to transition legacy monolith applications to cloud-based microservices, implemented using Java, Spring Boot, and Angular.

### Software Developer I Intern @ Management Science Associates, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
In Scala and leveraging the Cucumber and Gherkin automated testing libraries, developed comprehensive automated testing suites for various business applications.

### Quality Assurance Intern @ Tobii Dynavox
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
As part of the agile methodology, provided quality assurance validation for application updates for development teams developing essential speech generating devices and apps.

### Linguistics Consulting Intern @ M*Modal
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
I worked alongside a team of linguistics interns and software development teams to tag and validate automated part-of-speech tagging and resolve linguistic discrepancies in medical corpus linguistic data.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### Certificate in American Sign Language & Deaf Culture Studies
University of Pittsburgh
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics
University of Pittsburgh
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### Pennsbury High School
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chrislagunilla

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Last updated: 2026-03-22