# Chris Wessel

> Software Engineering @ FanDuel

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chriswessel

Chris is a full-stack software engineer, software delivery consultant, and team leader with expertise in enterprise distributed systems and cloud web application development. His experience spans the manufacturing, healthcare, utilities, and financial services industries. His hobbies include travel, backpacking, art, and music.

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ FanDuel
Jan 2024 – Present | Atlanta, Georgia, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ FanDuel
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States

### Lead Software Engineer @ FanDuel
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024

### Manager - Lead Full-Stack Software Developer @ CapTech Consulting
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Top 10 US Bank: 
- Architect, develop, and deploy serverless and containerized Java, JavaScript, and Python solutions in an AWS-native environment using ECS and Lambda
- Mentor and onboard new developers, including college hires
- Perform code reviews and manage code repositories in enterprise GitHub.
- Size and assign work to relevant developers using JIRA, taking on complex work as needed
- Create and maintain technical documentation including architectural diagrams and application development roadmaps
- Design components for high availability and regional resiliency with Route53 routing policies and cloud micro-service design principles, including micro-front-ends
- Integrate CloudWatch logs with incident alarm systems and Splunk log aggregation
- Resolve security issues as identified in automated scans
- Collaborate remotely with a geographically dispersed team

### Manager - Lead Full-Stack Software Developer @ CapTech Consulting
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Regional Utility Company: 
-Serve in a lead/senior capacity on an agile scrum development team for a bespoke enterprise web application
-Estimate development effort for team deliverables at a program level
-Architect and implement responsive  front-end User Interface components in Angular 8+
-Collaborate with CX and Visual Design professionals to implement consumer-quality components that are accessible and easy to use
-Architect state management for User Interface in RxJS
-Develop Java 11+ Spring Boot Micro-services/PostgresSQL with Docker and deployed to ECS in AWS
-Leverage AWS tools like SQS, RDS, Cognito, API Gateway, and ECS
-Integration with cloud-hosted ElasticSearch
-Integrate with CI/CD tools like BitBucket and Jenkins
-Onboard, knowledge transfer, and mentor client developers
-Contribute in SAFe PI planning

Internal: 
Mentor direct reports and champion a coaching culture
Identify and evaluate potential new recruits and business opportunities
Contribute to business development goals through providing technical leadership in the discussion
Develop content (blogs, presentations) to inform clients and other consultants of changes in the technical landscape

### Manager - Lead Full-Stack Developer @ CapTech Consulting
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Atlanta, Georgia
Top 10 US Healthcare Company:
     -Team technical lead
     -Architect, Develop POCs, and implement distributed microservice streaming data solutions in Spring Boot, with messaging backbones (RabbitMQ, Kafka), deployed to container orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) both on-prem and cloud (AWS)
     -Architect  and contribute to UI solutions and feature development in ExtJS 6 and React
     -Develop CI/CD pipelines (Bamboo) to enable automated microservice test/build/deployment
     -Scrum team's primary resource for front- and back-end technical solutions
     -Analyze dynamic and static security scan results and remediate findings 
     -Serve as mentor to younger developers and onboard new resources
     -Provide final approval on code reviews and administer BitBucket Repository
     -Establish and audit technical work processes for team

Internal: 
     -Identify and evaluate potential new recruits
     -Contribute to business development goals through providing technical leadership in the discussion
     -Develop content (blogs, presentations) to inform clients and other consultants of changes in the technical landscape and potential new opportunities

### Senior Consultant - Lead Full-Stack Developer @ CapTech Consulting
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Atlanta, Georgia
Top 10 US Healthcare Company:
     -Team technical lead
     -Architect, Develop POCs and implement distributed microservice streaming data solutions in Spring Boot, with messaging backbones (RabbitMQ, Kafka), deployed to container orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)
     -Architect UI solution and contribute to feature development (ES6, ExtJS, React)
     -Develop CI/CD pipelines (Bamboo) to enable automated microservice build/deployment
     -Scrum team's primary resource for front- and back-end technical solutions
     -Analyze dynamic and static security scan results and remediate findings 
     -Serve as mentor to younger developers and onboard new resources
     -Provide final approval on code reviews and administer BitBucket Repository
     -Establish and audit technical work processes for team

Internal: 
     -Identify and evaluate potential new recruits
     -Contribute to business development goals through providing technical leadership in the discussion
     -Develop content (blogs, presentations) to inform clients and other consultants of changes in the technical landscape and potential new opportunities

### Senior Consultant - Senior Java Developer @ CapTech Consulting
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Atlanta, Georgia
Top 10 US Healthcare Company:
-Full-stack software development consultant
-Engagements on green-field Java 8 API (Spring) and systems development
-UI development in Sencha ExtJS 6
-Create visualizations and reports using Splunk log aggregation
-Implementation/enablement of CI/CD practices using enterprise standard tools
-Utilized Atlassian SDLC software suite (JIRA, BitBucket, Confluence, Bamboo)
-Scrum team within a SAFe environment

Internal: 
-Contributed to projects in React
-Participated in Client research/ideation sessions to prepare technical pitches

### Software Development Associate @ General Motors
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Atlanta, Georgia
Customer Care and Aftersales Developer:
Fixed bugs, identified and implemented enhancements, acted as MySQL DBA, as operations owner for international business-critical application (LAMP stack)
Designed and integrated a TDD (JUnit) solution with legacy application code (Java 7, Struts)
Migrated legacy application from Struts to Spring
Gathered business requirements of new functionality and delivered solutions from wireframe to production (Java, Struts, Spring)
Researched tools and their applications for our domain, educated team
Led application outsourcing effort as a part of Opel/Vauxhall sale
Maintained application security standards

### Software Developer - New College Hire @ General Motors
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Atlanta, Georgia
Customer Care and Aftersales Applications Developer:
New Development/Maintenance  on enterprise Java systems (Struts, Spring)
Development of RESTful APIs Using JAX-RS and Spring MVC for service-oriented solutions
Technical Documentation 
Maintenance/new Development of PHP systems (LAMP stack/Zend)
Customer Facing technical interaction
Interactions with Business SMEs - Analysis, Requirements gathering
Agile Development process
Oracle and MySQL DB
Javascript, JQuery, Angular 2
HTML 5, CSS3


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Mathematics, English Literature and Composition, Art History
Indiana University Bloomington
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chris-wessel-6867576b

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Last updated: 2026-03-22