Hey, I'm Chris!
Read about the projects I’ve worked on, the decisions behind them, and a few things that shape how I think.
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How I Work: Everything Is Text
A walkthrough of my terminal-first, keyboard-driven setup I use every day.
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pi-cc: Safer Copy-Paste for Shell Commands
A Pi extension that detects code blocks and lets you copy the exact one you want without fighting the terminal.
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Wayfair: Making a Revenue-Critical Flow Configurable in Checkout
I moved a blocking Rewards enrollment flow from a legacy PHP payload to server-driven UI without giving the CMS control of purchase mutations or recovery.
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Wayfair: Making a Checkout Rewards Modal Feel Immediate
I prefetched a checkout modal, caused an outage, then built a safer fix: a lightweight GraphQL preview query that separated CMS readiness from purchase-contract creation.
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Case Study: Designing Airgoods’ Reorder Center
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Lacuna: Building a Mentorship Marketplace
I co-founded and built a marketplace where high schoolers book time with college mentors on the spot, shipping it end-to-end to 60+ mentors and real bookings.
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Resume
Cut checkout P75 page latency by 43% by removing legacy bottlenecks in high-traffic purchase flows.
Built a GraphQL preloading flow for a rewards checkout modal, dropping load time from 3.8s to 0.5s.
Prevented revenue loss on-call with a hotfix that unblocked checkout for all non-US stores.
Decomposed legacy checkout flows into federated GraphQL services across purchase surfaces.
A few things about me
Most useful business-related book you've read?
Poor Charlie's Almanack. It changed how I think about problems: instead of judging behavior as simply good or bad, I look for the incentives, constraints, and feedback loops shaping the outcome — especially in product and team decisions.
Favorite non-business book?
The Inner Game of Tennis. It changed how I think about performance: improvement often comes less from forcing perfection and more from quieting self-judgment, paying attention, and letting learning happen through feedback.