Chris Chidgey, Developer in Boise, ID, United States
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Chris Chidgey

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Software Developer

Location
Boise, ID, United States
Toptal Member Since
April 19, 2018

Chris is an entrepreneur and software developer with a proven track record of building and maintaining mobile apps from concept to app store submission and beyond. Chris is a former corporate manager turned mobile app publisher and developer—with apps downloaded more than 40,000 times per month.

Portfolio

P180 Investments LLC
React Native, Facebook API, Instagram API, Figma
Three Five Two, Inc.
React Native, GraphQL, AWS Lambda, Apollo, Apollo Server, Serverless...

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

BaaS, NoSQL, React Native

The most amazing...

...project I've built was a platform for content marketers to distribute their content in a custom mobile app.

Work Experience

React Native Developer

2023 - 2023
Pioneer Works, Inc.
  • Helped the client evaluate moving a series of successful native apps on iOS and Android to React. Worked through many open questions and built their first React component for production.
  • Established initial patterns and React project structure.
  • Evaluated various third-party libraries and implemented best fits for future feature development.
Technologies: React Native

Senior Mobile App Developer

2022 - 2023
P180 Investments LLC
  • Built a POC and eventually an MVP the client used to raise funds for a larger implementation.
  • Worked with a variety of APIs to help build a proprietary user object.
  • Helped define the best approaches for working with many different data types from several sources and implemented them in the project.
Technologies: React Native, Facebook API, Instagram API, Figma

React Native Developer

2022 - 2022
Three Five Two, Inc.
  • Helped identify which features or components in the existing app were best candidates for re-architecture and then rebuilt them.
  • Tracked and fixed issues screen by screen and feature by feature with a team using Jira.
  • Updated legacy libraries with new versions or replaced with newer, better fits for the project.
Technologies: React Native, GraphQL, AWS Lambda, Apollo, Apollo Server, Serverless, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

React Native Developer

2021 - 2022
nXlvl Inc.
  • Helped build a team of React Native developers, interviewing multiple candidates.
  • Worked with photo and video features, including cropping and editing, version control, geolocation, storing and fetching, and optimizing the UX.
  • Built the onboarding flow, including the authentication feature.
Technologies: React Native, TypeScript, GraphQL

Founder | Software Engineer

2016 - 2018
Contenta
  • Developed a platform for supporting the clients' published content across a variety of distribution channels.
  • Integrated products with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, WordPress, and Libsyn APIs.
  • Implemented automated push notifications based on subscription and newly published content.
  • Created a dynamic lead capture form integrated via an API with multiple email marketing services (MailChimp, ActiveCampaign, and InfusionSoft).
Technologies: YouTube API, Facebook API, Twitter API, Expo, MongoDB, Express.js, React Native, JavaScript, Node.js, Front-end, Mobile Apps, Mobile, Cross-platform

Founder | Software Engineer

2015 - 2017
BGB Island, LLC
  • Developed a popular "celebrity look-alike" app using the AWS Rekognition API.
  • Enabled the app to utilize the camera, camera roll, and photo library.
  • Implemented an in-app currency and in-app purchases for both coins (consumable) and category unlocks (non-consumable).
  • Integrated Google Adwords (now Google Ads), Facebook Audience Network, and Appodeal.
  • Received positive feedback and positive in-app experience ratings.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Facebook API, Instagram API, Redux, React Native, JavaScript, App Store Optimization (ASO), Node.js, Front-end, Mobile Apps, Mobile, Cross-platform

Sample Code

https://snack.expo.io/@chidgeychris/sample-code
A super simple counter app that shows both class-based and functional components, Redux, basic JSX, and how I generally structure my projects.

Follow the below link snack.expo.io/@chidgeychris/sample-code to view a tool called "snack." The tool provides a QR code to test functionality on your device and also has a preview tool: close the QR code overlay and toggle "preview" at the bottom.

Tim Topham Piano

A content distribution app for a membership site. It has multiple social APIs, Redux, push notifications, and email marketing API integrations. This was developed for iOS and Android.

The cool part of the app from a developer and business perspective is that it was built to be easily rebranded and "rehydrated" for new brands, automatically pulling in all of their public content (blog, videos, and social), theming, and social links.

Celebrity Look Alike

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/look-alike-who-do-i-look-like/id535153636
A celebrity look-alike app using AWS machine learning for facial recognition. The app was built with React Native using AWS S3 for image storage and has an average customer rating of 4.2 stars with over 2,900 user ratings.

Other features include Google Analytics, Sentry bug/crash reporting, ratings prompts, and in-app purchases.

Awesome App | Inspire and Share Positivity

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/awesome/id1434720224
A mobile app for iOS and Android was built using React Native, MongoDB, GraphQL, Express.js (API), and AWS S3 (image storage).

Features:

• Authentication
• Social profiles
• Various actions (follow, following, block, and report)
• Posts (create, delete, and make private)
• In-app purchases (items and subscriptions)
• Animations

Quo Finance

A React Native cross-platform financial services app. Built new wireframes with a Firebase back-end, animated charts, and integrations into third-party services such as Plaid for financial data, user authorization, and authentication.

Successfully submitted to app stores.

nXlvl - Build Your Brand

https://www.nxlvl.app/
A cross-platform React Native mobile app using GraphQL, animations, Expo build services, Mux video services, IMGLY media editing, Sentry bug tracking, and much more.

Implemented solutions for video editing, caching fast image downloads and caching, third-party authentication (Facebook, Apple, and Google), deep link routing, toast messages, in-app messaging, and dynamic image resizing and loading.

Frameworks

React Native, Redux, Express.js

Other

Mobile Apps, Front-end, APIs, Sports, BaaS, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Full-stack, Mobile App Development, Fintech, Mobile Banking, Cost Accounting, Finance, B2C Marketing, Enterprise SaaS, Statistics, Apollo, Apollo Server, Serverless

Languages

ECMAScript (ES6), ES7, JavaScript, GraphQL, TypeScript

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, React, Instagram API, Google Ads API, Twilio API, Facebook API, Twitter API, WordPress API, CocoaPods, Facebook Open Graph API, YouTube API, React Navigation

Tools

Git, Expo, Figma, Mongoose, Sentry, Google Analytics

Paradigms

Functional Reactive Programming, Asynchronous Programming, Cross-platform, Agile, REST, Mobile Development, App Store Optimization (ASO)

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Firebase, iOS, Android, Mobile, MacOS, Heroku, AWS Lambda

Storage

MongoDB, NoSQL

2006 - 2008

Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree in Business

University of San Diego - San Diego, CA, USA

1996 - 2000

Bachelor of Science Degree in Business

California State University, Chico - Chico, CA, USA

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