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Chris
Stromquist

Senior Software Engineer React Specialist Full-Stack Problem Solver

Senior software engineer with 15+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable front-end and platform systems. Strong background in React, Node.js, AWS, CI/CD automation, and performance engineering. Actively use AI-assisted tooling as part of daily development workflows to improve developer velocity and engineering quality.

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Experience

Senior Software Engineer

CliniComp

Nov 2023 – Present
  • Owned end-to-end development of core components within a large-scale Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform, spanning React front end, API layer, and SQLite-backed services.
  • Partnered with clinicians, product managers, and designers to translate complex clinical workflows into reliable, user-focused software solutions.
  • Led feature planning and estimation from Functional Requirements Documents (FRDs), improving delivery predictability.
  • Identified architectural and performance bottlenecks, refactoring inefficient code paths to improve maintainability and scalability.
  • Optimized low-performing SQL queries, delivering 3× performance improvements and materially improving application responsiveness.

Senior Software Engineer

Intuit · TurboTax

Jun 2018 – Nov 2023
  • Built and maintained multiple React-based single-page applications supporting TurboTax.com at enterprise scale.
  • Contributed to modernization from a monolithic web platform to a microservices architecture using Node.js SSR and React CSR.
  • Designed and supported AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, Route 53) for highly available customer-facing applications.
  • Built and owned CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins with YAML-based configuration to automate testing, builds, and deployments.
  • Established testing standards across unit, integration, and system layers, consistently maintaining 80%+ code coverage.
  • Acted as technical mentor, providing high-signal code reviews and guiding junior engineers through complex implementations.

Contract Senior Front-End Engineer

Intuit · TurboTax

Nov 2016 – May 2018
  • Developed secure, high-traffic React applications serving 30M+ users during peak tax-season workloads.
  • Collaborated with product and design teams to deliver intuitive, high-quality user experiences.

Principal / Freelance Web Developer

eSolutions Web Services

May 2006 – Jun 2018
  • Architected and built full-stack e-commerce platforms processing $1M+ in revenue, owning front-end, backend services, databases, and client delivery.
  • Led technical strategy, integrations, and performance optimization across multiple client engagements.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN

Skills

Frontend Engineering

React JavaScript / TypeScript Server-Side Rendering Responsive & Accessible UI Frontend Performance

Backend & APIs

REST API Design SQLite / MySQL / PostgreSQL Backend Service Architecture Authentication & Data Validation

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (EC2, S3, Route 53) CI/CD Pipelines Jenkins Build & Deployment Automation Splunk

AI-Assisted Development

Claude / Cursor Parallel Test Generation Automated Test Scaffolding

Contact

Open to new opportunities. Let's talk.

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