Chris Morris

Served as a technical lead for campus recruiting initiatives, overseeing architecture and delivery across teams.

• Designed and built Campus 360, improving candidate-to-role fit and streamlining campus workflows.
• Standardized candidate collect form fields, creating a durable data model and submissions pipeline.
• Improved reliability in recruiting workflows through systematic bug fixing and defensive design practices.
• Unblocked the organization's transition to Apple silicon by enabling a workable development environment.
• Joined support calls, diagnosed production issues, and converted findings into fixes and regression coverage.
• Mentored engineers and set patterns for safe rollouts, feature-flagged delivery, and backward-compatible change management.

Led Boatyard engineering and platform delivery through growth and acquisition, then continued as a Senior Software Engineer after the MarineMax transition.

• Directed architecture, execution, and cross-functional delivery for customer-facing and internal systems.
• Helped lead the company through a successful acquisition by MarineMax, a Fortune 500 company.
• Collaborated with operations on feature roadmap, sprint planning, scheduling, and implementation.
• Managed deployment automation using Terraform and Travis CI to establish CI/CD pipelines.
• Built custom reporting tools for reconciling transaction histories.
• Developed a multi-tenant content management system for drip email templates.
• Managed offshore development resources while maintaining security and reliability alignment.

Served as a senior engineering leader in the HR tech space for early talent.

• Led a team of developers to re-architect and migrate a legacy Ruby on Rails application.
• Created a user-friendly administrative interface for managing user and business accounts.
• Used Pundit to establish comprehensive user policies and permissions.
• Used Chef, encrypted data bags, and Capistrano to manage staging and production environments.
• Deployed Rails applications with Phusion Passenger and Nginx.
• Used New Relic and Honeybadger to identify bottlenecks, production errors, and fixes.
• Analyzed the production database to find and fix blocking queries.
• Synchronized data from third-party integrations for use on the Wynbi platform.

Built and maintained software in a high-trust identity and verification environment.

• Developed a Ruby gem to integrate platform services into Spree-based Rails applications.
• Followed test-driven development methodology and created automated unit and functional tests.
• Exposed metrics to enable iterative, data-driven user experience improvements.
• Cross-trained with DevOps to support mission-critical tasks.
• Used OAuth2 to delegate user authentication to third-party services.
• Drove releases for internal analytics and user metrics administrative dashboards.
• Conducted A/B testing on the marketplace using Optimizely.

Delivered Ruby on Rails client work across multiple projects.

• Integrated Stripe payment systems with several publicly facing applications.
• Deployed Rails applications using Capistrano, Unicorn, and Nginx.
• Used Twitter Bootstrap and JavaScript to create front-end layouts.
• Created automated unit and functional tests using RSpec.
• Prepared program-level and user-level documentation.
• Optimized page load times and database performance.
• Worked with a client's team to discover and troubleshoot problems in Rack middleware.
• Integrated social login features with OmniAuth and Devise Ruby gems for Rails applications.