Welcome to
Chris Gaeta's portfolio

• Clyde

  October 2022 - February 2023

  Clyde sells warranties for businesses' online stores.

  Duties

  • Build ecommerce widgets with Typescript and React
  • Add and update API endpoints on a Node.js backend
  • Lead the dev effort for a new ecommerce widget

  Contributions

  • As a software engineer at Clyde, I introduced my teams to better development practices.
  • I built and shipped various features on the frontend, including various widgets and modals to advertise and sell warranties.

• Readlee

  July 2021 - July 2022

  Readlee is an education technology company, helping teachers promote literacy in their classes.

  Duties

  • Build the Readlee app with React and Typescript
  • Write end-to-end tests with TestCafe
  • Add API endpoints to the Rails backend
  • Find and research tools for building the app, graphs, etc.

  Contributions

  • As a software engineer at Readlee, I collaborated with my team to rebuild the app from Flutter to React and facilitate our work.
  • I built and shipped various features on the frontend, including data visualizations for student literacy and improvement, various forms, and more.

• HackerRank

  December 2019 - June 2021

  HackerRank is a tech interview solution for tech recruiters, giving them tools to facilitate code interviews.

  Duties

  • Build and ship features with React, Redux and Rails
  • Write unit tests to validate work
  • Collaborate cross-geo in architecture and design decisions
  • Optimize frontend CD with GitHub actions

  Contributions

  • At HackerRank, my job was to collaborate with the product team to identify priorities, balance our workload, and collaborate with my engineering team to build and ship our product.
  • The scale and complexity of our product introduced a number of challenges. To help mitigate those, I often worked to refactor some of our previous work, creating utilities to facilitate future development, and identify opportunities to optimize our CI/CD tools.

• Mimir Corp.

  September 2018 - December 2019

  Mimir Classroom, a product from Mimir, is an app for Computer Science education. Classroom helps instructors create and grade coursework.

  Duties

  • Build and ship features with React and Rails
  • Write integration tests and Ruby unit tests to validate work
  • Collaborate in architecture and design decisions

  Contributions

  • As a software engineer at Mimir, I collaborated with my team of engineers and product designers in planning the architecture of the Classroom app, in addition to designing and building various features.
  • During my time at Mimir, I learned how to work with and contribute to a Rails back end, partnered with others to build an IDE for web projects, and pushed various other features.