Hi, I’m Christopher Mitchell, a Senior Automation & Full Stack Engineer with over a decade of experience designing, building, and deploying scalable automation, web scraping, and full‑stack solutions. I specialize in Python, Scrapy, Selenium, Node.js, React, Flask/Django, and cloud technologies like AWS and GCP. I’m passionate about turning complex data and processes into reliable, user‑friendly solutions. I excel at creating robust web scraping pipelines, automating data workflows, and delivering responsive dashboards for manufacturing, machine learning, robotics, healthcare, and biotech sectors. I value CI/CD, DevOps practices, and mentoring teammates to raise the bar on reliability, performance, and actionable insights across projects.

Christopher Mitchell

Hi, I’m Christopher Mitchell, a Senior Automation & Full Stack Engineer with over a decade of experience designing, building, and deploying scalable automation, web scraping, and full‑stack solutions. I specialize in Python, Scrapy, Selenium, Node.js, React, Flask/Django, and cloud technologies like AWS and GCP. I’m passionate about turning complex data and processes into reliable, user‑friendly solutions. I excel at creating robust web scraping pipelines, automating data workflows, and delivering responsive dashboards for manufacturing, machine learning, robotics, healthcare, and biotech sectors. I value CI/CD, DevOps practices, and mentoring teammates to raise the bar on reliability, performance, and actionable insights across projects.

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Hi, I’m Christopher Mitchell, a Senior Automation & Full Stack Engineer with over a decade of experience designing, building, and deploying scalable automation, web scraping, and full‑stack solutions. I specialize in Python, Scrapy, Selenium, Node.js, React, Flask/Django, and cloud technologies like AWS and GCP. I’m passionate about turning complex data and processes into reliable, user‑friendly solutions.

I excel at creating robust web scraping pipelines, automating data workflows, and delivering responsive dashboards for manufacturing, machine learning, robotics, healthcare, and biotech sectors. I value CI/CD, DevOps practices, and mentoring teammates to raise the bar on reliability, performance, and actionable insights across projects.

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Language

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Work Experience

Senior Full Stack Engineer at LightEdge
October 1, 2023 - May 1, 2025
Senior contributor responsible for frontend architecture and system scalability across customer-facing applications. Designed modern UI frameworks with React, Next.js, and TypeScript; migrated legacy UI to component-based architectures; built and maintained backend services in Node.js; collaborated on AWS-based solutions; implemented GitOps-based CI/CD pipelines; integrated intelligent automation into dashboards.
Senior Software Engineer at Opentrons Labworks
May 1, 2022 - May 1, 2023
Architected full-stack platforms combining React, Node.js, and Python to support robotic lab automation and data workflows. Built frontend interfaces for workflow orchestration and monitoring; developed backend APIs and serverless services with Node.js, AWS Lambda, and Step Functions; integrated AI-assisted processing pipelines; implemented real-time monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK; acted as technical lead mentoring engineers.
Full Stack Developer at EPIC Systems Group
November 1, 2019 - February 1, 2022
Developed scalable healthcare applications using React, Node.js, and Python (Flask/Django) for clinical data management; built scraping and API integration pipelines (HIPAA-compliant); designed REST and GraphQL APIs; created dashboards with React and D3.js for real-time data visualization; enhanced CI/CD with Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes; automated compliance reporting and testing; cloud migration to AWS/GCP.
Automation Engineer / Junior Full Stack Developer at Wolf Robotics
October 1, 2017 - September 1, 2019
Created Python/Selenium scraping bots and data transformation pipelines; developed internal web apps (Node.js + React); designed REST APIs; automated documentation scraping and indexing; implemented error handling, retries, and logging; integrated scraped datasets into dashboards; participated in firmware and hardware testing automation.
Automation Engineer at Bright Machines
September 1, 2015 - August 1, 2017
Built web scraping pipelines with Python, Scrapy, and BeautifulSoup; automated ETL workflows; developed Flask-based internal dashboards; automated reporting and alerting; QA automation with Selenium; data cleaning and validation; collaborated with procurement and engineering teams; optimized scraping performance; supported data for analytics.
Freelancer (Automation & Full Stack) at Remote – Various Clients
January 1, 2015 - Present
Delivered custom scraping solutions for e-commerce, finance, and healthcare clients; built end-to-end full-stack apps using React, Node.js, Flask/Django; automated dashboards and reporting with Python, SQL, and BI tools; developed REST APIs and microservices; deployed cloud automation with AWS Lambda; managed projects end-to-end and mentored junior freelance engineers.
Freelance Automation & Full Stack Developer at Remote – U.S. & International Clients
January 1, 2015 - Present
Delivered custom scraping solutions for e-commerce, finance, and healthcare clients; built end-to-end full-stack apps for startups using React, Node.js, Flask/Django, and cloud hosting; automated dashboards and reporting with Python, SQL, Power BI, and Google Data Studio; developed REST APIs and microservices; deployed cloud automation with AWS Lambda, Docker, and serverless functions; managed projects end-to-end and mentored junior freelance engineers.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at University of Richmond
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2015
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at University of Richmond
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2015

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Life Sciences