Christopher B.

Christopher B. has over 20 years of work experience in the software development industry. From 1999 to 2016, they have held various roles including Senior Developer, Senior Web Developer, Senior Web Application Developer, Senior Full Stack Developer / DevOps Engineer, Technical Architect, and Business Partner / Senior Web Developer.

At Ripple Street Inc., Christopher was a Senior Full Stack Developer / DevOps Engineer, where they were integral in rewriting the entire social platform in React / React Native using Relay and a GraphQL backend that spoke to a PHP API. Christopher modernized the PHP API backend and wrote Lambda microservices to help with video transcoding, email blacklisting, and data updates / event driven processes.

From 2012 to 2015, Christopher was a Senior Full Stack Web Developer at ViralNova.com. Christopher developed and maintained the Nova platform which allowed for content creation, A/B testing of layouts and ads, and reporting on monies spent vs. earned. Christopher managed infrastructure comprised of Elastic Beanstalk webheads running PHP-FPM w/ local APC caches and nginx, Aurora (MySQL compatible DB), Elasticache (redis), CloudFront (and other CDNs for savings over CloudFront fees), and Lambda node.

From 2000 to 2009, Christopher held various roles including Owner of Devonium Incorporated, Business Partner / Senior Web Developer at CreationProject, LLC, Senior Developer / Technical Architect at The Search Monitor, Technical Architect at Optima Global Solutions, Senior Web Developer at Monticello Granite, Ltd., and Senior Web Application Developer at MarketDataInsite.

At MLS Total Solutions, Christopher was a Senior Developer from 1999 to 2000.

Christopher B. began their educational journey in 1993 at the County College of Morris, where they earned an Associate of Science degree in Biology. Christopher then continued their studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where they earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Biology in 1997. After that, Christopher B. went on to the University of South Carolina, where they earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in 1999.