Chris Capriccio

Chief Technology Officer

2022 - Current

Technical Co-Founder

2022

VP of Engineering

2014 - 2022

Built Engineering team identity by driving team to identify and define core values. This was used to shape career planning, staffing, and talent reviews. Managed, mentored, and expanded development team of 100+ individuals spread across 15 different teams and 3 continents. Responsible for development and delivery of all front end technologies and properties including core website as well as native mobile applications. Increased productivity and collaboration with offshore development team to provide targeted staff augmentation in achieving greater delivery scale Introduced Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to the organization to automate back-end fulfillment process. Led development of new platform agnostic API layer using micro services pattern to serve both internal and external consuming applications Moved waterfall delivery teams to Scaled Agile Framework using Jira and VersionOne to increase transparency and predictability of development teams Implemented DevOps culture by shifting from old ITOps model to fully automated CI/CD release complete with test automation

Chief Software Architect

2007 - 2014

Managed development team in building scalable manufacturing and public facing web applications. Migrated company from legacy platform to latest version of tech stack. Instituted best practices software development methodolgy using agile development guided by ALM tools. Built a new corporate website including feature rich order quoting system built using Bootstrap, AngularJS, and 3JS for specialized visualizations Began migration of technical systems to cloud based computing enviroment using AWS and Azure. Interacted with business users to learn domain as well as distill non-functional requirements in to technical specifications. Responsible for strategic technical direction in conjuction with Director of IT

Head of Engineering

2006 - 2007

Built and mentored development team in building cutting edge applications for the Cable Industry. Strategically directed corporation in all technological matters including application development, IT infrastructure, and Information Systems. Implemented and maintained Application Lifecycle Management tools for software development life cycle management, automated builds, bug tracking, and source configuration management Strategically directed corporation in all technological matters including application development, IT infrastructure, and Information Systems

Software Engineering Lead

2005 - 2006

Built dynamic Web 2.0 applications that provided data driven functionality as well as an effective, robust, and aesthetic user experience Pioneered a company wide web services API so that partners could integrate with internal systems Architected and supervised the development of company wide application foundation that became the basis for all other applications

Software Development Manager

2005 - 2005

Managed web development team in creating and maintaining dynamic web portal used to help manage back office operations. Developed a subscription service that allowed customers to utilize ordering and commissions services. This system securely managed customer credit information while submitting monthly subscription fees to a payment gateway. Led development of an integrated ordering portal that served both consumers and resellers, utilizing the same codebase with custom user interfaces. Architected and supervised the development of a new product based on latest technologies. This n-tier project utilized multi-level page caching and had the ability to work in a disconnected state.

Software Engineering Lead

2004 - 2004

Supervised a team of programmers and designers to support a rapidly changing top ranked e-commerce web site. Developed solutions in both Microsoft (.NET/C#, SQL Server) and Open Source (Linux, Apache, MySQL PHP) Created affiliate tracking system in order to report dollars earned from click through affiliate links