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Hi, I’m Chris Toynbee, a senior full-stack engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling SaaS products in Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, and modern JavaScript frameworks. I design and ship clean, high-performance code in distributed, remote-first environments, mentoring developers and collaborating across cross-functional teams. I’ve integrated AI and LLMs into production features—from GPT-powered automation and prompt pipelines to semantic search with Elasticsearch—driving improved UX and automation. I thrive on solving complex problems, emphasizing SOLID design, and delivering maintainable systems that scale.…Hi, I’m Chris Toynbee, a senior full-stack engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling SaaS products in Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, and modern JavaScript frameworks. I design and ship clean, high-performance code in distributed, remote-first environments, mentoring developers and collaborating across cross-functional teams. I’ve integrated AI and LLMs into production features—from GPT-powered automation and prompt pipelines to semantic search with Elasticsearch—driving improved UX and automation. I thrive on solving complex problems, emphasizing SOLID design, and delivering maintainable systems that scale.

Chris Toynbee

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Web Developer, +2

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Hi, I’m Chris Toynbee, a senior full-stack engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling SaaS products in Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, and modern JavaScript frameworks. I design and ship clean, high-performance code in distributed, remote-first environments, mentoring developers and collaborating across cross-functional teams. I’ve integrated AI and LLMs into production features—from GPT-powered automation and prompt pipelines to semantic search with Elasticsearch—driving improved UX and automation. I thrive on solving complex problems, emphasizing SOLID design, and delivering maintainable systems that scale.…Hi, I’m Chris Toynbee, a senior full-stack engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling SaaS products in Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, and modern JavaScript frameworks. I design and ship clean, high-performance code in distributed, remote-first environments, mentoring developers and collaborating across cross-functional teams. I’ve integrated AI and LLMs into production features—from GPT-powered automation and prompt pipelines to semantic search with Elasticsearch—driving improved UX and automation. I thrive on solving complex problems, emphasizing SOLID design, and delivering maintainable systems that scale.

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Hi, I’m Chris Toynbee, a senior full-stack engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling SaaS products in Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, and modern JavaScript frameworks. I design and ship clean, high-performance code in distributed, remote-first environments, mentoring developers and collaborating across cross-functional teams.

I’ve integrated AI and LLMs into production features—from GPT-powered automation and prompt pipelines to semantic search with Elasticsearch—driving improved UX and automation. I thrive on solving complex problems, emphasizing SOLID design, and delivering maintainable systems that scale.

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Senior Software Engineer at Streem

March 1, 2025 - November 4, 2025

Delivered features in a multi-backend Rails monolith serving millions of media monitoring queries daily; focused on performance improvements using Elastic Search and scalable backend patterns.

Senior Software Engineer at Tribal Habits

March 1, 2025 - March 1, 2025

Delivered new features across four Vue.js applications backed by a Rails 7 monolith; integrated AI-powered APIs to enhance automation and user experience; collaborated with cross-functional teams to ship high-traffic SaaS features.

Senior Software Engineer at School Status (Opera)

November 1, 2024 - November 1, 2024

Implemented Rails 6/7 and Vue.js front-end work; redesigned UI with a design system and Vue Components; refactored legacy code to reduce technical debt and improve maintainability; expanded test coverage with RSpec.

Senior Software Engineer at ReadyTech

October 1, 2021 - October 1, 2021

Supported CTO with Go and TypeScript tasks; contributed to building the design system in TypeScript; collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver customer service automation features.

Senior Developer at Gearbox

March 1, 2021 - March 1, 2021

Contributed Rails APIs with React/React Native clients; integrated Twilio for SMS and CRM systems for enterprise clients; mentored junior developers and drove TD/DDD practices in a high-growth SaaS environment.

Senior Developer at Gravity Labs

September 1, 2019 - September 1, 2019

Built features and bug fixes in Rails/Backbone.js; reworked legacy code, improved test coverage, and shifted to scalable front-end solutions with Stimulus JS and RSpec.

Senior Software Engineer at Paperkite

June 1, 2021 - June 1, 2021

Designed and implemented high-traffic Rails API endpoints; interfaced with payment and banking integrations; upgraded AWS Elastic Beanstalk infrastructure and improved deployment processes.

Senior Software Engineer at Choice

December 1, 2019 - December 1, 2019

Migrated a fintech Rails app to a more secure, scalable platform; replaced authentication with token-based flows and integrated with partner banking systems.

Team Lead / Lead Developer at Web Punch LLC

October 1, 2018 - October 1, 2018

Led a distributed team delivering Rails APIs with React/React Native clients; integrated Twilio SMS and CRM systems for enterprise clients; mentored junior developers and maintained high maintainability.

Lead Developer at Count.It

April 1, 2019 - April 1, 2019

Migrated Rails apps to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with auto-scaling; upgraded Ruby/Rails stack; integrated Stripe payments.

Senior Developer at Zeal

September 1, 2019 - September 1, 2019

Built an online crisis intervention tool; integrated Instagram for intake, implemented Azure Functions in JavaScript; reduced Azure Cosmos DB costs via optimization.

Contract Senior Developer at Enspiral

December 31, 2013 - December 31, 2013

Various contract roles delivering Rails APIs and front-end work; contributed to team enablement and best practices.