I’m a Senior Full Stack Engineer with over 10 years of experience building and scaling software across fintech, e-commerce, SaaS, and healthcare. I specialize in cloud-native systems, microservices, and modern web frameworks like React, Next.js, and .NET Core. I’ve led cross-functional teams, improved system performance by up to 50%, and delivered secure, GDPR-compliant solutions. I’m also experienced in mentoring engineers, optimizing delivery pipelines, and driving architectural modernization to help businesses scale reliably. I’m passionate about solving complex problems with pragmatic architectures and delivering value through robust engineering practices, automation, and collaboration across product, design, and operations. I enjoy mentoring teams, raising the bar on quality, and contributing to scalable platforms that enable rapid, secure growth.

Christopher Mitchell

I’m a Senior Full Stack Engineer with over 10 years of experience building and scaling software across fintech, e-commerce, SaaS, and healthcare. I specialize in cloud-native systems, microservices, and modern web frameworks like React, Next.js, and .NET Core. I’ve led cross-functional teams, improved system performance by up to 50%, and delivered secure, GDPR-compliant solutions. I’m also experienced in mentoring engineers, optimizing delivery pipelines, and driving architectural modernization to help businesses scale reliably. I’m passionate about solving complex problems with pragmatic architectures and delivering value through robust engineering practices, automation, and collaboration across product, design, and operations. I enjoy mentoring teams, raising the bar on quality, and contributing to scalable platforms that enable rapid, secure growth.

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I’m a Senior Full Stack Engineer with over 10 years of experience building and scaling software across fintech, e-commerce, SaaS, and healthcare. I specialize in cloud-native systems, microservices, and modern web frameworks like React, Next.js, and .NET Core. I’ve led cross-functional teams, improved system performance by up to 50%, and delivered secure, GDPR-compliant solutions. I’m also experienced in mentoring engineers, optimizing delivery pipelines, and driving architectural modernization to help businesses scale reliably.

I’m passionate about solving complex problems with pragmatic architectures and delivering value through robust engineering practices, automation, and collaboration across product, design, and operations. I enjoy mentoring teams, raising the bar on quality, and contributing to scalable platforms that enable rapid, secure growth.

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Work Experience

Senior AI/ML Engineer at Anthropic
August 1, 2025 - August 1, 2025
Senior AI/ML Engineer contributing to LLM-powered enterprise systems, RAG pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and safety-aligned deployments across global clients. Led model optimization, inference acceleration, and cross-functional AI feature delivery. Mentored ML engineers and collaborated with researchers to translate safety practices into production-ready architectures. Built end-to-end pipelines and observability around LLM services using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and vector databases. Delivered complex enterprise integrations for Fortune 500 clients, aligning legal and security requirements with scalable ML deployments.
Senior Software Engineer at Blue Yonder
October 1, 2023 - May 1, 2025
Led development of modern e-commerce and logistics interfaces using React, Next.js and .NET Core microservices; improved user engagement by 28% and Lighthouse SEO scores by 46%. Built high-performance search with GraphQL, Elasticsearch, and PostgreSQL; reduced latency by 50% and boosted conversion. Integrated GPT-based assistants into merchant admin panels; cut support tickets by 45% and increased self-service. Architected multi-tenant microservice infra on AWS (Lambda, ECS, EKS) with autoscaling, canaries, and blue-green releases, achieving 69% uptime. Implemented Auth0, OAuth2, and JWT-based authentication with SSO (Azure AD). Owned CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation). Mentored engineers on system design, LLM integration, testing strategies, and performance best practices.
Senior Software Engineer (AI & Platform) at Databricks
November 1, 2021 - September 1, 2023
Designed a microservices migration roadmap for client onboarding and engineered scalable, distributed microservices to support AI-driven SaaS features for fintech and healthcare clients. Built ML pipelines for anomaly detection and risk scoring (Python, FastAPI, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch) with monitoring and drift detection. Developed RAG-based conversational assistants and knowledge agents using GPT-3/4 and LangChain with secure CRM/documentation connectors. Led migration from monolithic Node.js services to Java Spring Boot microservices backed by Kafka, improving throughput (~45%) and reducing memory footprint. Implemented continuous model delivery with SageMaker and Terraform-managed infra, plus automated packaging, A/B deployments, and rollback. Created real-time streaming ETL with Kafka/Spark/Kinesis to keep analytical stores in near real-time. Mentored teams on MLOps and containerized deployments.
Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face
November 1, 2020 - November 1, 2020
Worked on open-source transformers, NLP research-to-production workflows, data set automation, and scalable training pipelines. Contributed to model evaluation pipelines, tokenizers, and community model integrations; built NLP pipelines for classification, question-answering, summarization, and semantic similarity. Collaborated with researchers to productize safety practices and progress transformer architectures into production-ready components.
Full-Stack + AI Integration Engineer at Superside
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2020
Built full-stack + AI integration for a collaborative SaaS platform. Focused on real-time design collaboration features, ML-powered layout suggestions, image processing, and design recommendations. Integrated third-party tools to enhance workflows and engineered scalable APIs powering knowledge management, document parsing, policy modeling, and internal agent workflows.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer at InVision
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2019
Led development of scalable collaboration features for design teams. Drove architectural modernization to improve performance and reliability, including migration toward microservices (Node.js, Go, GraphQL) and implementing security hardening across enterprise-focused features.
Full-Stack Engineer at GitLab
March 1, 2018 - March 1, 2018
Contributed to GitLab's DevOps platform across backend APIs and dashboards. Implemented REST/GraphQL endpoints, automated CI/CD pipelines, and security improvements. Built internal tooling and dashboards consumed by multiple engineering teams.
Full-Stack Engineer at Capital One
February 1, 2018 - October 1, 2021
Developed cloud-native financial analytics platforms using Angular, TypeScript, .NET Core, SQL Server, and AWS, supporting millions of daily transactions with strong SLAs. Built AI-assisted sentiment analysis pipelines (Azure Cognitive Services, OpenAI embeddings, NLP) contributing to a 22% uplift in NPS. Created serverless workflows on AWS Lambda/Step Functions for batch processing and real-time ingestion. Prototyped real-time fraud detection using Python, Kafka, Spark, and Elasticsearch, enhancing coverage by ~30%. Optimized SQL Server queries and indexing to reduce heavy-read latencies by up to 40%. Led UI modernization with Angular, RxJS, and Bootstrap, improving internal efficiency by ~25%. Drove IaC adoption (Terraform/CloudFormation) to reduce deployment time and human error.
Front-End Developer at Zapier
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2017
Rebuilt UI components using React + Redux, performed UI A/B testing, and improved onboarding flows. Built debugging tools for Zap execution logs and reduced UI bundle sizes to improve load times on slower devices.
Full-Stack Developer at PagerDuty
September 1, 2016 - February 1, 2018
Led frontend engineering for high-performance monitoring dashboards using React, D3.js, and WebSockets; improved dashboard load times by 34% and reduced client-side CPU usage. Architected component-driven UI systems enabling reuse across React web apps and React Native mobile clients. Integrated TensorFlow.js for on-device anomaly detection and lightweight forecasting, enabling fast pre-filtering of event streams with 85% precision. Introduced automated testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress) and CI workflows to catch regressions early.
Junior Web Developer at Automattic
September 1, 2016 - September 1, 2016
Delivered custom WordPress themes and plugins, improved front-end performance, and contributed small fixes to Gutenberg. Enhanced onboarding flows and built reusable components for internal teams.
Full-Stack Developer at Symphony Communication Services
March 1, 2015 - September 1, 2016
Built real-time communication and collaboration tools using ReactJS, Ember and Laravel; improved responsiveness and reduced memory leaks. Developed NLP pipelines (spaCy, NLTK) and Python microservices for sentiment analysis and routing, increasing triage efficiency by 20%. Implemented RESTful services with Laravel and MySQL, added caching, and optimized queries to reduce API response times by 25%.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at University of Richmond
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2015
Master’s Degree in Computer Science at University of Latvia
August 1, 2011 - May 1, 2015

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail