Christopher S.

Christopher S.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area, South Africa
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About Me

Chris is a Senior Developer with experience leading, supervising and mentoring technical resources to develop, enhance and deliver scalable, high-performing web applications within Agile product teams. He plans, designs, codes, deploys and maintains web applications and supporting tools using Ruby on Rails - producing new enhancements, framework component upgrades and maintenance sprints within a 24/7 production environment.

AI, ML & LLM

Frontend

Database

Other

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
2022 - Present (3 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

GoDaddy
GoDaddy
Technical Manager (Software Development)
2019 - 2022 (3 years)
South Africa
  • Built and executed new workflow services, customizable content templates and email rendering pipelines for customer campaigns within GoDaddy.

  • Developed and implemented a React-based content compser with a real-time dependency loader on the project.

  • Led GoDaddy's platform team to design and release a social content management service on the platform.

ThymeBase
ThymeBase
CTO
2019 - Present (6 years)
Remote
  • Designed, developed and implemented technical solutions for Thymebase from inception to commercialization.

  • Manage budgets, set priorities and strategize technology investments in concert with business development and engineering needs.

  • Partner with the dev team to identify, assess and advance technical upgrades to existing products supporting efforts within Thymebase.

GoDaddy
GoDaddy
Senior Software Developer
2014 - 2019 (5 years)
South Africa
  • Supervised EOL processes and tasks for a legacy product and migrated customers to a new platform.

  • Participated in full integration activities for MadMimi into GoDaddy email marketing - maintaining accounts and billing services.

  • Led rollout processes and tasks for GDPR compliance on two products and implemented the shared header microservice for customers.

Mad Mimi
Mad Mimi
Lead Developer
2010 - 2014 (4 years)
New York, United States of America
  • Provided product lifecycle management expertise within Mad Mimi - iterating new features and managing releases.

  • Offered ongoing product support on different products for Mad Mimi - addressing bugs and providing fixes to technical debts.

  • Wrote and deployed clean code for UI and backend solutions and implemented new features to enhance existing products.

Norclippet
Norclippet
Software Developer
2005 - 2010 (5 years)
United States of America
  • Designed, built, and maintained efficient and reliable software solutions and backend services on projects.

  • Designed and maintained data storage solutions and handled the integration of user-facing elements with server-side logic.

  • Implemented best practices of behaviour-driven development and ensured coding standards on solutions.

Showcase

CTO - Thymebase
CTO - Thymebase
  • ThymeBase is a platform for managing events, tasks, and details.

  • It includes a client portal with no account required and collaboration tools.

  • The project involves overseeing the entire product lifecycle, from design to launch.

Technical Manager (Software Development) - GoDaddy
Technical Manager (Software Development) - GoDaddy
  • Led the development team on multiple products and projects within GoDaddy.

  • Implemented new features, workflow services, customizable content templates, email rendering pipelines, and a translation service tool.

  • Focused on optimizing existing product capabilities.

Lead Developer - Mad Mimi
Lead Developer - Mad Mimi
  • Mad Mimi is an online email newsletter creation, sending, sharing, and tracking platform.

  • It simplifies email marketing for users.

  • The developer focused on product lifecycle management, feature implementation, and ongoing support.

Education

BSc. Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics & Philosophy
BSc. Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics & Philosophy
University of Johannesburg
2003 - 2005 (2 years)
B.Eng Electrical and Electronic Engineering
B.Eng Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Rand Afrikaans University
2000 - 2002 (2 years)