Senior Software Engineer
Christopher Norman Full-stack engineer with 9+ years shipping consumer products at scale. Expert in React, React Native, Node.js, and TypeScript across web, mobile, and desktop. Strong track record owning features end-to-end from architecture to production.
Experience Aug 2024 – Present
Senior Software Engineer · TMZ Migrated the React Native app to a new major version of JW Player, resolving breaking API changes across iOS and Android. Built internal tooling to accelerate Apple News article publishing, reducing time-to-publish for the editorial team. Contributed fixes to open-source React Native libraries, reducing build times team-wide. Jan 2022 – Aug 2024
Senior Software Engineer · Pro Football Focus Shipped single-page checkout redesign, driving a 22% increase in conversion. Architected in-app subscriptions end-to-end (React Native + Node.js), including receipt validation and entitlement management. Built a personalized email tool based on NFL draft picks to drive user re-engagement. Jun 2023 – Sep 2023
Software Engineer (Contract) · StreamFi Delivered full-stack features on a Next.js Web3 platform, integrating Wagmi, Ethers.js, and the Aurora blockchain. Feb 2021 – Jan 2022
Software Engineer · Freelance Built e-commerce storefronts (Shopify Liquid) and a headless editorial platform (Next.js + Hygraph CMS). Sep 2018 – Jan 2021
Design Technologist · Walmart eCommerce Built React and Swift prototypes for online grocery and voice commerce; owned team CI/CD pipeline. Apr 2017 – Jul 2018
Software Engineer II · eBay Built prototyping tools using production data to validate design and engineering decisions before full builds. Jun 2015 – Apr 2017
Software Engineer I · eBay Contributed to SKIN (eBay's open-source CSS framework); built and maintained Angular.js/Node.js prototyping platform. Co-invented US Patent 9,892,200 — location-based and alter-ego query technology. Skills Frontend React 18 React Native 0.76 Remix Vite Tailwind CSS Electron Redux Toolkit TanStack Query
Backend & Infra Node.js Hono Supabase (Postgres + Auth) Vercel Cloudflare DigitalOcean GitHub Actions Turborepo pnpm
AI & Data Mastra Claude Trigger.dev Voyage AI embeddings Algolia DuckDB
Media & Monetization Mux (HLS) AzuraCast Stripe Google IMA SDK AdSense AdMob Resend Mailchimp
Tooling Sanity 5 i18next (13 langs) Statsig Sentry Playwright Firebase Analytics Wagmi WalletConnect
Featured Project Art of Digging / The Rose Crib Solo founder and engineer
Monorepo (pnpm + Turborepo) with Remix web, React Native mobile, Electron desktop, Hono API, Sanity 5 CMS, Supabase, Mux video, AI editorial pipelines (Mastra + Claude), AzuraCast radio, and 13-language i18n.
Education B.S. Software Engineering · Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY · 2015