I’m a senior full-stack software engineer and AI-focused architect with 11+ years of experience building and launching complex AI-powered platforms and large-scale automation solutions. I specialize in full-stack development, RAG pipelines, multimodal AI workflows, and secure, compliant data handling—turning technical prototypes into reliable production systems. Across my roles, I’ve led architecture, release, and performance initiatives—improving Google Lighthouse scores from 78 to 92, scaling high-traffic web apps to 18,000+ daily active users, and improving operational success from 87% to 95% through robust backend design. I build secure systems end-to-end, integrate third-party APIs, and deliver practical AI features (like document processing with high field accuracy and smart listing assistants) that measurably reduce manual effort and support friction for real users.…

Chris Lawrence Wawryk

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I’m a senior full-stack software engineer and AI-focused architect with 11+ years of experience building and launching complex AI-powered platforms and large-scale automation solutions. I specialize in full-stack development, RAG pipelines, multimodal AI workflows, and secure, compliant data handling—turning technical prototypes into reliable production systems. Across my roles, I’ve led architecture, release, and performance initiatives—improving Google Lighthouse scores from 78 to 92, scaling high-traffic web apps to 18,000+ daily active users, and improving operational success from 87% to 95% through robust backend design. I build secure systems end-to-end, integrate third-party APIs, and deliver practical AI features (like document processing with high field accuracy and smart listing assistants) that measurably reduce manual effort and support friction for real users.…

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I’m a senior full-stack software engineer and AI-focused architect with 11+ years of experience building and launching complex AI-powered platforms and large-scale automation solutions. I specialize in full-stack development, RAG pipelines, multimodal AI workflows, and secure, compliant data handling—turning technical prototypes into reliable production systems.

Across my roles, I’ve led architecture, release, and performance initiatives—improving Google Lighthouse scores from 78 to 92, scaling high-traffic web apps to 18,000+ daily active users, and improving operational success from 87% to 95% through robust backend design. I build secure systems end-to-end, integrate third-party APIs, and deliver practical AI features (like document processing with high field accuracy and smart listing assistants) that measurably reduce manual effort and support friction for real users.

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Work Experience

Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Health-GPT
December 1, 2024 - August 1, 2026
Architected and launched Health-GPT, an AI-powered healthcare platform helping users organize medical records, understand health history, and prepare for clinical visits. Established architecture review practices, code-quality standards, and release controls across web, mobile, and backend development while mentoring two junior developers. Improved Google Lighthouse performance score from 78 to 92 via bundle optimization, asset loading improvements, caching, and rendering enhancements. Implemented a RAG pipeline using OpenAI text embeddings, MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, semantic retrieval, and cosine-similarity ranking to generate relevant answers grounded in patient-history context. Built a medical document processing pipeline to extract structured health information with ~95% field-level accuracy and organize data into a chronological medical timeline. Implemented secure authentication, authorization, and AES-256-GCM encryption for protected health information, strengthening privacy
Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Posh Sidekick
June 15, 2020 - December 5, 2024
- Architected and launched Sidekick Tools' mobile apps and website, a large-scale automation platform enabling cross-listing and workflow management across multiple marketplace ecosystems, processing 11K+ automated listing workflows per day - Built and optimized a high-traffic Next.js application serving 18K+ daily active users while improving frontend performance, SEO visibility, and overall user experience - Developed a multimodal AI smart-listing assistant using Google Gemini that analyzed uploaded product images and automatically populated SEO-optimized titles, descriptions, colors, sizes, brands, categories, and other marketplace-specific attributes, reducing average listing creation time by approximately 70% and increasing attribute completeness to approximately 95% - Designed scalable Node.js backend services supporting authentication workflows, marketplace synchronization pipelines, automation scheduling, and background job processing. - Designed idempotent synchronization workers with automated retries, queue prioritization, and marketplace-specific rate-limit controls, improving successful operations by 8 percentage points—from 87% to 95%—and reducing support cases requiring manual recovery by 28%. - Led frontend architecture improvements and reusable component standardization, accelerating feature delivery and reducing UI inconsistencies across the platform - Integrated third-party marketplace APIs including eBay, Etsy, Poshmark, Mercari, Depop, Whatnot, and Vinted with OAuth lifecycle management, token refresh handling, and rate-limiting strategies
Full-Stack Software Developer at AppDirect, Inc
July 20, 2015 - June 1, 2020
- Designed, developed, and maintained React and Node.js applications supporting customer operations, reporting, partner administration, and internal workflow automation for 280 employees, reducing manual processing time by 70%. - Improved daily reporting performance by 42% through MySQL indexing, query optimization, and backend caching - Implemented role-based access controls, authentication workflows, form validation, and secure data-handling practices for internal business systems
Software Developer Co-op at AppDirect, Inc
May 16, 2014 - August 15, 2014
- Contributed to the development of white-label cloud application marketplaces that enabled business customers to discover, purchase, and manage SaaS products through a centralized web portal. - Developed responsive, reusable Backbone.js views and client-side components for product catalogs, search, navigation, categories, product details and account-management workflows.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS), Co-op at University of Waterloo
September 1, 2010 - June 30, 2015

Qualifications

Full-Stack Software Engineer
June 1, 2015 - August 12, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Healthcare, Professional Services, Retail, Computers & Electronics