Senior Software Engineer
Christopher Norman
Full-stack engineer delivering consumer products at scale. Deep expertise in React, React Native, Node.js, and TypeScript across web, mobile, and desktop. Proven track record owning system design and REST API development end-to-end, from architecture through production.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer · TMZ
- Owned the JW Player migration to its latest version, unblocking the team's upgrade to the new React Native architecture.
- Implemented a local development workflow for building and debugging Apple News articles, significantly improving editorial publishing speed.
- Contributed fixes to open-source React Native libraries, improving build times and unblocking team velocity.
Senior Software Engineer · Pro Football Focus
- Owned checkout API development and system design, shipping a redesigned flow that drove a 22% increase in conversion.
- Owned the in-app subscription system end-to-end (React Native + Node.js REST APIs), including receipt validation, entitlement management, and scalability under peak traffic.
- Owned the JWT token upgrade across the app and led early technical discovery on a shared component architecture for React and React Native.
Software Engineer (Contract) · StreamFi
- Delivered full-stack features on a Next.js Web3 platform, integrating REST APIs, Wagmi, Ethers.js, and the Aurora blockchain.
Software Engineer · Freelance
- Built e-commerce storefronts (Shopify Liquid) and a headless editorial platform (Next.js + Hygraph CMS) with REST API integrations.
Design Technologist · Walmart eCommerce
- Owned the process of exposing the production prototyping platform to the internet, managing deployment pipelines and CI/CD.
- Built prototypes leveraging Walmart's internal large language model (LLM) and in-house computer vision models for furniture detection.
Software Engineer II · eBay
- Partnered with design research to build buy-side prototypes using production data.
- Owned internal tooling to accelerate prototype iteration using Agile and Scrum methodologies.
- Prototyped and user-tested Multiple Top Picks (MTP), a new product-page experience that shipped as a tab carousel.
Software Engineer I · eBay
- Owned maintenance of the internal design system website (Drupal); contributed to SKIN, eBay's open-source CSS framework.
- Co-built a Chrome extension for the eBay design grid that reached ~40,000 users at peak.
- Co-invented US Patent 9,892,200 — location-based and alter-ego query technology.
More Information
Aug 2024 – Present
Senior Software Engineer · TMZ
Unblocking TMZ's upgrade to the new React Native architecture while speeding up editorial publishing.
Jan 2022 – Aug 2024
Senior Software Engineer · Pro Football Focus
Owned checkout and subscriptions end-to-end across web and mobile, plus core app architecture work.
Jun 2023 – Sep 2023
Software Engineer (Contract) · StreamFi
Delivered full-stack features for a Web3 platform built on Next.js and the Aurora blockchain.
Feb 2021 – Jan 2022
Software Engineer · Freelance
Built e-commerce and editorial sites for independent clients.
Sep 2018 – Jan 2021
Design Technologist · Walmart eCommerce
Owned the prototyping platform's deployment and built AI-driven prototypes on Walmart's internal models.
Apr 2017 – Jul 2018
Software Engineer II · eBay
Partnered with design research on buy-side prototypes and owned tooling to accelerate iteration.
Jun 2015 – Apr 2017
Software Engineer I · eBay
Maintained eBay's design system site, contributed to its open-source CSS framework, and co-invented a patented query technology.
Skills
Frontend
Backend & Infra
AI & Data
Media & Monetization
Tooling
Projects
The Rose Crib
Music lifestyle platform — Remix web app and React Native mobile app backed by a Hono REST API, Supabase, Sanity 5 CMS, and Mux, with AI editorial pipelines, AzuraCast radio, and 13-language i18n.
Art of Digging
Solo-founded editorial platform with an AI editorial pipeline (Mastra + Claude), AzuraCast radio, and 13-language i18n.
Ruby Mountain
Independent build exploring new ideas across the same engineering stack.
Education
B.S. Software Engineering · Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY · 2015