# Christopher R. > Sr. Software Engineer, Christian at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Husband, Father & Eel Sushi Hunter Location: Provo, Utah, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/christopherr Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years crafting enterprise solutions that matter. I lead high-performing engineering teams and build exceptional products using React, TypeScript, and full-stack technologies. My passion lies in elevating both people and code – mentoring teams globally while delivering sophisticated solutions that make a difference. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Gloo Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 In my role, I spearheaded the development of key features and bug resolutions by fostering close collaboration with product, design, and support teams, ensuring our solutions were both user-centric and technically sound. My leadership was integral in guiding a diverse team through the successful delivery of major projects, including the development of a CMS platform, the implementation of a recurring broadcast messaging system (where I engineered the scheduling algorithm and improved Real Experience Score by 55.6% (from 63 to 98) on core platform features, and the comprehensive migration of our application from create-react-app to NextJS 14. Additionally, I developed features for the Ruby on Rails assessments application. I’m dedicated to removing obstacles for team members and creating an environment conducive to learning and problem-solving. Additionally, I focused on cultivating a positive team culture, underpinned by authenticity and kindness, and prioritized individual growth through regular mentoring sessions, helping team members achieve their professional goals. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Sandbox365 Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Using Slack, I teamed up with the CEO and the principal front-end engineer to architect a full-stack calendar automation solution similar to Calendly from scratch using NextJS, Vercel, GCP, MS Azure, NodeJs, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Jest, Prisma, MySQL, and PlanetScale. I developed algorithms to calculate and display a user’s schedule availability by factoring in busy times from various calendars (Microsoft, Google). I achieved this by writing a Calendar API adapter interface and by implementing functional and object-oriented programming design patterns. I also performed code reviews, encouraging developer growth and sound coding practices. Additionally, I led the technical design and implemented the API using OpenAPI, test-driven development, and OAuth 2.0. I planned, estimated, and prioritized user stories and the product roadmap for both front-end and back-end development. I designed and implemented a scalable database to work with Lambda API functions using Prisma, MySQL, and Vitess-based architecture (PlanetScale). ### Full-stack Developer @ Self-employed Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | Osaka, Osaka, Japan As a part of Arc.dev’s elite network of software engineers, I’ve offered clients full-stack web development services worldwide. I arrived via slack to collaborate with small teams, leading the project by inviting teamwork, facilitating planning, practicing kindness, and sharing productive programming principles such as test driven development, commenting hygiene, and code modularity. Whether drafting coding guidelines, counseling with CEOs, or setting up and deploying entire web apps from scratch, I played a key role in improving engineering output and helping clients and teams reach their goals. Using Arc.dev’s mentoring platform Codementor, I’ve also had the opportunity to mentor and pair-program with individuals who are learning to program or stuck on a difficult bug during their developer job. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Atomic Jolt Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Working asynchronously with a distributed team using Ruby on Rails and React, we engineered a Learning Management Application for the United States Air Force’s LMS (Canvas), which allowed teachers and staff to create and use quizzes from Qualtrics (a survey SaSS) inside of their LMS. During development, our team significantly improved engineering efficiency by extracting components from other projects into a Storybook project or a React component library (previously I had given a company-wide presentation and tutorial on the benefits of Storybook). I mentored Jr. developers by performing code reviews, pair-programming, sharing technical content, encouraging teamwork and unity, and nourishing friendship. Together, we ensured code quality by writing tests using Rspec, Jest, Cypress, and React Testing Library. Along with full-stack development, some of the core features I lead were: designing and implementing the database, running migrations, authoring a CLI to generate variable testing data against several APIs (with great Dev. Ex.), handling OAuth 2.0 in an iFrame, and implementing a GraphQL connection and SQL for paginated, sortable, and searchable data. ### Javascript Engineer @ Automattic Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Japan As a member of the Gutenberg team, I had the privilege to contribute to both the WordPress Core and the Gutenberg project. I worked alongside world-class software engineers, facilitating triage for Gutenberg Github issues, implementing the data layer for an internal hiring tool, moving from Redux to WordPress/data and WordPress/core-data, and performing a security audit on an internal plugin. ### iOS Developer (contractor) @ LongShorts Stories (By 96 Problems) Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Osaka, Japan Upgraded a React-Native app from version 0.39 to 0.43 — requiring an app overhaul. I mended breaking changes by setting up a new iOS project from scratch using previous configurations, reconfiguring pods (dependencies) and refactoring features. In addition, I improved application performance by caching data after initial app launch and enhanced the UI/UX with features such as pull-to-refresh and dynamic screen height for a twitter-like feed. ### UI Designer / Front-end Engineer @ Qzzr Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Lehi, Utah During my role as a developer, I received 3 outstanding performance reviews over a 1.6 year period resulting in a 75% pay increase. Alongside a team of 12 engineers, we developed user-facing features for embeddable quizzes, polls, and lists to help content creators build rich and interactive experiences; increasing site traffic, revealing customer insights, and boosting revenue. Together we programmed composable and reusable UI components for our in-house framework named “UI-Kit” written in React.js. I also teamed up with the marketing team and the principal designer to lead a major front-end overhaul of the marketing site tech stack. Additional deliverables included Facebook Pixel integration, contextual offers, gallery viewer, navigation for each app, search, drop-downs, modals, animations, and forms (credit card, pricing, plans, etc). ### Front-end developer / Founder @ Seed of the Mind Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Salt Lake City, Utah Founded and ran a successful story telling T-Shirt e-commerce website. I independently designed, produced, and coded the site, illustrations, and marketing material. Increased T-Shirt sales (sold a record $800 worth of t-shirts in 1 day) by attending shirt conventions, concerts, SEO, mailing lists (using mail-chimp), and building a custom rigged sales booth (designed banners, stickers, shirt story flyers, and price tags). Improved e-commerce conversion through research and abstraction; chunking customer needs into personas and use cases. ## Education ### Curated class playlist in Computer Science, Animation, Japanese University of Utah Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 ### Associate's Degree in Associate of Arts/Science Dixie State University Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 ### High School in Fine Art and American History Pine View High School Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christophermreece - GitHub: https://github.com/momotofu - Website: https://www.christopher.surf/about --- Source: https://flows.cv/christopherr JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/christopherr/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22