01 / ENGINEERING & EXPERIENCE
Built for people.
Engineered to work.
Two decades of turning complex ideas into working experiences. Front-end development, UX engineering, and tools that bring the next possibility a little closer.
Christopher is an Advanced Software Engineer and Tech Lead for Kroger Design System at Kroger Technology & Digital. He leads a team of three developers building a tokenized design system component library connected to Figma, supporting React, Angular, and vanilla JavaScript across internal and customer-facing products. His career spans front-end development, UX engineering, interactive prototypes, and tools that turn design ideas into working experiences.
Previously at Salesforce and ExactTarget, he built developer tools, contributed to the Marketing Cloud interface framework, and created product demonstrations for Dreamforce. His research explored AI and machine learning for design generation.
RESEARCH / INVENTION
Granted patents
Christopher is a co-inventor on granted U.S. patents covering interactive software demonstrations, SVG processing, and machine learning. These inventions grew out of his work on tools for demonstrating envisioned products before they were fully built.
- US 11,635,944 — Programmatic creation of interactive product demonstrations. Granted April 25, 2023.
- US 11,526,655 — Machine learning to translate captured images into interactive demonstrations. Granted December 13, 2022.
- US 11,481,540 — Comparing raster and vector images to resolve rendering discrepancies. Granted October 25, 2022.
- US 11,386,258 — Dynamic SVG processing for interactive software demonstrations. Granted July 12, 2022.
KNOWLEDGE / SHARED
Open source, writing & teaching
An early member of Stack Overflow (user 58), Christopher has contributed to jQuery UI, JSHint, and Backbone.Marionette. He also created and maintained the Status-bar Calculator browser extensions.
He co-authored HTML, XHTML and CSS All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies and served as technical editor for Building Facebook Applications For Dummies and the second edition of Building Websites All-in-One For Dummies. At IUPUI, he taught server-side programming with PHP and mobile application development. He holds a bachelor's degree in Media Arts and Science and a certificate in Applied Computer Science.
More about Christopher's career: LinkedIn, Stack Overflow biography, and Fuel UX.
