Chris Mlinac

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Full Stack Software Engineer

Saffron Shark Labs

May 2025 - Current (1 year 6 months)

• Provided technical and business guidance to founders of early-stage startups, enhancing their product vision
• Architect and implement innovative solutions, transforming business ideas into functional products
• Upgraded client’s user security and identity management to meet standards required by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The site passed examination and was approved for communication between coaches and student athletes
• Preferred Tech Stack: Next.js (React, TypeScript, Node), Postgres I am currently working with an EdTech startup nearing their launch date. I'm excited to share more details when they launch!

Senior Software Engineer

Trove

Oct 2023 - Jun 2024 (9 months)

• Created an application using React and Node to allow warehouse administrators to move up to 20,000 items between facilities at a time, replacing a process that took 4+ hours of engineering time per transfer
• Updated order system to allow CS team to query pending orders, resulting in 12% fewer support tickets per week
• Reworked CS return React frontend to combine 5 modals into 1, saving 4 minutes per return (∼200 returns/week)
• Generated a new product label with Node and Express to accommodate a high priority customer’s existing process, enabling warehouse integration in only 2 days (standard time: 8 days) React, Redux, JavaScript, Node, Express, GraphQL, Docker, k8s (Kubernetes), PostgreSQL, AWS (Amazon Web Services), Ma

Staff Engineer

ZenBusiness

Jan 2022 - Nov 2022 (11 months)

• Led technical direction and project implementation on a team of 11 engineers, including people management duties for 5 direct reports
• Owned frontend implementation for a successful A/B test that directly led to an 8.5% yearly increase in overall revenue
• Designed architecture and API for a chatbot microservice backend used by web and mobile apps
• Created and documented the technical design for a new publication product and mentored 3 engineers in their implementation, resulting in the feature shipping 1 week ahead of schedule
• Screened resumes, conducted interviews and made hiring decisions for contractors, resulting 3 successful engineering hires across the organization
• Developed a tool using React and Nod

Senior Software Engineer

ZenBusiness

Feb 2021 - Jan 2022 (1 year)

React, Redux, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Express, Fastify, Python, Django, GraphQL, Docker, k8s (Kubernetes), PostgreSQL, GCP (Google Cloud Platform), Material UI, HTML, CSS, and a bit of Vue

Software Engineer II

Cvent

Feb 2020 - Feb 2021 (1 year 1 month)

• Reduced page load time for meeting request forms by 25% by parallelizing network calls (from 6.4 to 4.8 seconds)
• Fixed performance on troublesome React/Redux form components, resulting in 33% fewer rerenders and a noticeably smoother user experience
• Spearheaded multi-team effort to migrate business logic from MySQL stored procedures into Next.js endpoints
• Redesigned and migrated storage of user-created content, resulting in 30% faster data retrieval and removing dependencies on a legacy monolith
• Led effort to add unit testing to a large frontend application using Jest and React Testing Library, resulting in a 32% increase in code coverage and a 11% drop in bugs reported for the project over the next 6 months Re

Software Engineer II

Expedia Group

Apr 2016 - Jun 2019 (3 years 3 months)

• Acted as engineering manager and scrum master for an offshore team of 4 software engineers
• Designed and implemented a new SEO content portal with React and Node that allowed writers to update SEO content with 50% of the previous effort
• Gathered and cached the results of frequently run business logic calculations, reducing the average page load time by 17% and improving the SEO score of destination-specific landing pages
• Wrote AWS Lambas for handling image transformations with Java and GraphicsMagick
• Extracted and transformed the data from over 200,000 user content update events per day with a custom Kafka streams application written in Java, saving the results in the data warehouse with Hive HQL for analytics

Software Engineer

Expedia Group

Jun 2014 - Apr 2016 (1 year 11 months)

• Reworked translation prioritization business logic to limit uncommon language pairs, draining a 2 year backlog in 6 months
• Developed a caching service to avoid unnecessary translations, freeing over $750,000 of budget for new content
• Created a web application with JSP and Backbone.js to replace a hard to use command line tool with a graphic UI
• Extended a Scala application to verify complex database migration data, resulting in a bug-free brand migration Java 7, Jetty, RabbitMQ, REST, XML, JSON, MongoDB, Docker, AWS, S3, DynamoDB, AWS Lambdas, Python, TensorFlow, ElasticSearch, Hadoop, Hive, Samza, Agile, JavaScript, Spring 3, Scala, MongoDB, JSP, Backbone.js, JQuery, Maven, MySQL, Kanban, XML, JSON

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Software Engineer Intern

Jul 2013 - Aug 2013 (2 months)

Technical Recruiting Intern

The Bidding Network

Feb 2012 - Jun 2013 (1 year 5 months)

Contacted qualified candidates and shared opportunities that were a good match for their skill-set, experience and career goals. I'm happy to say I didn't spam Principal Java Engineer roles to everyone who had the word JavaScript on their LinkedIn page.

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