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Christian C.
About
Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead with 10+ years of experience owning architecture, delivery, and technical strategy for enterprise and high-growth startups. Proven record of taking ambiguous, high-risk products from MVP to production, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering platforms with measurable business impact at scale.
Trusted technical partner to founders and stakeholders, with deep expertise in frontend systems, serverless architectures, cloud platforms, and performance-critical applications in regulated and data-intensive environments.
Broad, hands-on experience spans all three major cloud ecosystems ā AWS, Azure, and Firebase/Google Cloud ā with a particular focus on serverless and managed databases (DynamoDB, Aurora Serverless, PostgreSQL/pgvector, CosmosDB, and Firestore).
Work Experience
- Appointed CTO and architecture owner for CardAuthentico, taking full accountability for system design, delivery, and production readiness
- Took the platform from non-functional MVP to full production in 3 months, after a previous 4-person team had failed to progress beyond a basic demo
- Designed and delivered a secure, cloud-native, serverless architecture supporting web, iOS, Android, and macOS clients, running on AWS serverless databases (DynamoDB, Aurora) for the core platform
- Worked on an AI-powered CV data extractor on Firebase, using Firestore for document storage, hands-on production experience with the Firebase/GCP serverless database ecosystem
- Designed and delivered a secure, cloud-native, serverless architecture supporting web, iOS, Android, and macOS clients
- Led and mentored cross-functional teams of 4ā8 engineers, setting engineering standards, review practices, and delivery processes
- Integrated AI-driven features including OCR, image-based search, and LLM-assisted data extraction
- Owned security-sensitive features including passwordless authentication, identity verification, and compliance-oriented onboarding
- Acted as primary technical stakeholder interface, translating business goals into execution plans and delivery milestones
Key Clients & Projects
CardAuthentico ā Full-stack ownership of a regulated, payment-driven platform; significantly exceeded scope and feature set of earlier prototypes
Tendertec ā Designed and built a monitoring and incident detection dashboard processing thousands of videos per day, enabling tagging, review, and operational insights at scale
H&M Impuls ā Tech Lead for a high-pressure 6-week rewrite of an existing platform, leading a team of 4 and achieving 80% reduction in load times
Multiple enterprise & startup clients ā Architecture, delivery leadership, and hands-on development across web and cloud platforms
Served as Frontend and Technical Lead on large-scale enterprise platforms.
Led frontend architecture and delivery for National Grid, as part of the core team establishing the foundations of a customer payments product now used by 400k+ users
Took ownership of performance, testing strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and frontend standards across multiple products
Built and scaled serverless systems across AWS and Azure, improving deployment reliability and reducing operational overhead
Acted as technical authority and escalation point across multiple concurrent client engagements
Notable Work
National Grid Online Payments Platform ā Core team member defining architecture and frontend foundations for a high-scale consumer system
H&M Impuls ā Platform redesign under aggressive timelines, delivering major performance gains and improved reliability