Christopher Gregory

Senior Software Engineer @ Kojo

About

8+ year veteran software engineering leader who loves turning ideas into profitable businesses and taking startups into and beyond the growth stage. Expertise in shipping web and mobile applications with TypeScript/JavaScript utilizing React and NextJS, Remix.run, or React Native with typesafe interaction to a SQL or NoSQL database on either RESTful APIs or GraphQL APIs. A deep understanding of influencer and post-iOS14 digital marketing aids tech-marketing synergies and reliable analytics. Believes in macromanaging projects and departments with Agile Methodology by integrating tools such as Jira, Trello, or Asana with GitHub automation. • Taking a startup into the growth stage and tackling all of the challenges that come with scale is never easy. These problems are certainly unique to each business but there is overlap where experience counts. Synergizing marketing, logistics, project management, and tech is key to growth as you're only as fast as your weakest link. These are some of my favorite problems to solve. • My previous experience in linguistics has given me a leg up in speeding up the learning and iterative process. I still use many of the learning techniques to this day. • Fascinated with applied statistics, I built a mobile application with React Native to track financial data in order to analyze opportunities and solve complex mathematical problems. The data was aggregated into charts that allow the analysis of dataset combinations in order to calculate expected value, standard deviation, and user proficiency in various skill-based games such as Blackjack. • Graduated top of my class at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA studying the Arabic language and specializing in the Iraqi dialect. Following graduation, I would gain proficiency in multiple other Arabic dialects alongside Modern Standard Arabic which led me to be selected for a special operations assignment in Hurlburt Field, FL where I served the remainder of my enlistment. Get in touch at christopher.k.gregory@gmail.com

Country

United States

City

Irvine

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

JavaScript, B2C e-commerce, Data Architecture, React.js, Alternative Investments, Real Estate Transactions, Database Design, Spreadsheets, iOS Development, Material-UI, React Native, SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Cloud Firestore, PostgreSQL, Node.js, GraphQL, Apollo GraphQL

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Kojo

2024-4 - 2025-8 · 1 yr 5 mos

San Francisco, California, United States

Owner

Avail Solutions LLC

2016-2 - 2024-8 · 8 yrs 7 mos

Olathe, KS

Specialty cross-platform mobile and web application design and production.

Principal Software Engineer

Cortina, A Logicbroker Company

2022-10 - 2024-4 · 1 yr 7 mos

New York, United States

Chief Technology Officer

Chef Caleb

2020-12 - 2022-10 · 1 yr 11 mos

Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Finding solutions to growth-stage problems and rallying the departments around a singular goal to minimize inefficiencies.

Full Stack Engineer

Simplifyy

2019-10 - 2020-12 · 1 yr 3 mos

Language Analyst

United States Air Force

2009-7 - 2015-7 · 6 yrs 1 mo

Florida

As a language analyst in the United States Air Force I must not only continue to maintain the highest level of language ability, but I must also remain flexible to the changing mission requirements and specific sub-regions and dialects pertinent to any and all emerging threats to US interests. Following my last deployment I was awarded 2014 Language Professional AFISRAP Airman of the Year.

Education

Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Iraqi Arabic

2009 - 2012 · 3 yrs

I participated in a pilot program at the Defense Language Institute, where students were taught to speak a dialect of Arabic before learning Modern Standard Arabic. Despite the difficulty, I graduated top of my class with a DLPT score of 3, the highest possible score, and went on to teach Arabic to new students for a year before moving on to my next assignment.