# Christopher Leja

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/christopherleja

Full stack software engineer with experience in Ruby and JavaScript frameworks. Creative, curious, and communicative.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Clair
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Clair
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Future Foundry
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- Leveraged React Native, Next.js and Rails to architect and implement scalable, lean solutions for clients
- Built and optimized full stack applications, emphasizing performance, scalability, and user experience in weekly sprints
- Collaborated with designers, teammates, and clients to take applications from design to production

### Cohort Coach, Software Engineering @ Flatiron School
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Taught fundamentals of programming in Ruby, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails, SQL, JavaScript, React, and Redux
- Assessed student understanding with project reviews and technical assessments in Ruby and JavaScript
- Facilitated recurring meetings with students, individually and in groups, to assess progress and clarify confusion

### Writer, IMPACT Conference @ Sans Serif
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
- Wrote and reviewed attendee materials for Charles Schwab’s IMPACT Conference to ensure quality and clarity.
- Created guide materials clarifying workshops and speaker biographies for thousands of conference attendees.

### Software Engineering Student @ Flatiron School
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Brooklyn, New York, United States
Maiestro: A music app aimed at kickstarting creativity--allows users to record songs and collaborate with a neural network to generate musical ideas. 
- Connected user songs to a neural network that continues the original melody, helping users avoid blockages
- Designed and implemented a PostgreSQL relational database, allowing users to save songs
- Implemented a dynamic, customizable keyboard, allowing users to change instruments, octaves, and range
- Utilized Ruby on Rails to create a RESTful backend API with React and Redux on the frontend

Drumblr: A step-sequencer allowing users to create and save beats.
- Implemented user interface using React to allow users to create dynamic, custom beats
- Utilized midi-sounds-react library to retrieve samples, allowing users to create, play, and edit sequences in real time
- Designed and built a relational database using PostgreSQL
- Built a RESTful API backend with Ruby on Rails and a React frontend

Super Pet Bros. Unleashed: A pokemon-style browser game allowing users to create, save, and battle with their selected champions.  
- Implemented battle logic and combat mechanics with vanilla JavaScript 
- Used Rails as a backend API to save new champions with their selected move sets
- Utilized JavaScript and CSS3 to render dynamically updating pages based on user input and battle information
- Designed and created a relational database with PostgreSQL, allowing users to save champions and move sets

### Communications Consultant @ Clean Fuels Development Coalition, Clean Fuels Foundation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Bethesda, Maryland, United States
- Collaboratively developed long-term media strategies and handled media outreach for a national ad campaign.
- Oversaw social media campaigns that generated over 50,000 new engagements.
- Collaborated on traditional media campaigns resulting in client’s core messages appearing in Forbes, The Hill and the Des Moines Register

### Teaching Artist/Freelance Editor @ Self-Employed
Jan 2012 – Jan 2020
- Orchestrated and executed multiple national and international tours, organizing and conducting hundreds of readings and workshops.
- Served as primary creative editor for Clementine von Radics’ Mouthful of Forevers, which sold over 60,000 copies, and was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award (Best Poetry Collection). 
- Facilitated writing workshops in universities, high schools, and juvenile detention facilities


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in English Language and Literature/Letters
Lewis & Clark College
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christopherleja
- Website: https://christopher-leja.netlify.app

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Last updated: 2026-03-22