01 — the version for someone with thirty seconds
Looking for a senior backend / platform engineer who will hold on the Java middle of the stack so nobody else has to? That's me. Skim below, then read the parts that survived.
02 — what i actually do
I keep large codebases from falling over, and I build the tools other engineers use to keep them from falling over. Java monoliths, CI pipelines, AWS bills, the deploy button. The unglamorous middle of the stack.
Right now that means HYROS — an ad-tracking and attribution platform — through Ensolvers since Nov 2025. Architecture team. 80+ engineers, one million-plus lines of Java 21 / Spring Boot across forty modules. I own the build and test tooling, the CI, and a fair chunk of the AWS underneath it. I built the internal DevOps platform (NestJS, React) from nothing; it is now where the team deploys, watches pipeline answers and argues about flaky tests. Also shipped an AI code-review agent and a flaky-test detector, and killed the manual Jenkins release ritual.
03 — before that
| who | when | what happened |
|---|---|---|
| Lazo | Mar–Oct 2025 | AI-augmented ops startup. Made a desktop-only React app (200+ components, 100k LoC) responsive in six weeks. Full i18n on a Next.js app in two. Microservices that read legal documents so nobody else has to. |
| Nue.life | Jul 2024–Feb 2025 | Telemedicine. Held a 200k-line codebase alone for eight months, 40+ releases, Java 17→21, Spring 2.7→5.4. Cut load times ~70%. Nobody noticed, which is the point. |
| Hirelens | Sep 2023–Jun 2024 | Recruiting, LLM-flavoured. CV screening and interview-analysis pipelines. RAG, embeddings, Pinecone, back when that was a personality. |
| Modu LLC | 2023 | Intern. E-commerce. Four people. React and Firebase. |
Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas — Computer Engineering, 2018–still technically enrolled. GPA ~4.4/5, first in the major, ~150 people, top 1%. Someone will ask. Georgia Tech Python certificate, 2020.
04 — things that exist and you can use
04b — on github, if you code
Fetched from the API when you load this. No hardcoding, so it can't go stale or lie.
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all of it → github.com/chrischriscris
05 — things that are finished and were never launched
Code-complete, tested, sitting on a disk in Aragua. The blocker is never the code — it is buying a domain and finding a payment processor that will speak to a Venezuelan.
06 — things i did for no reason
07 — tools, if you must
green underline = in production, at work, right now.
07b — the codebase, as a live wireframe orb (webgl2, 3,000 points)
Move — it's parallax. Every edge is a module that touches another module.
08 — contact