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Christopher McGlynn

Senior UI/UX Engineer who designs and builds polished, accessible interfaces — and a founder who ships products.

Currently Senior Software Engineer, Ion

Mead, Colorado, United StatesLinkedIninfo@chrismcglynn.com

About

I’m a senior software engineer with a designer’s eye. I’ve spent the last decade building for the web and mobile — conversion-focused experiences, design systems and React Native apps — most recently across Red Ventures brands like MyMove. Today my focus is where design and engineering meet: accessible, polished interfaces, design systems that scale, and the interaction details that make a product feel right.

I’m also a builder at heart. Alongside my engineering work I’ve founded and shipped my own products, from a custodial investing app for kids to an Apple Watch scorekeeper for racquet sports and an AI follow-up platform for dental practices.

I care about clear communication, careful troubleshooting, and learning whatever the problem in front of me requires.

  1. Red Ventures

    7 yrs 9 mos

    1. Senior Software Engineer, Ion

      Full-time

      · 4 mos

      Colorado (remote)

      • Delivered Okta single sign-on with role-based access control across multiple tenant applications, adding one-time-passcode verification over Amazon SES to tighten security without adding friction.
      • Designed and built Quorum, an internal AI engineering platform that takes a Jira ticket from In Progress to a merge-ready pull request — planning, implementation and code-review follow-up — with engineers approving every step.
      • Architected Quorum’s multi-agent pipeline: a planning agent built on PAUL drafts the implementation plan, then sub-agents carry it out on models matched to each task’s complexity, keeping token spend down.
      • Kept engineers in control with Slack approval checkpoints for both plan and code, and automated the review loop by resolving teammate feedback, change requests and Codex comments until the PR is ready to merge.
      • Okta SSO
      • Role-based access control
      • Amazon SES
      • Agentic workflows
      • Multi-model orchestration
      • Jira & Slack integrations

    2. Senior Software Engineer, MyMove

      Full-time

      · 3 yrs 3 mos

      Colorado (remote)

      • Led the architecture and replatforming of the USPS Change-of-Address flow, creating a frictionless experience for movers and a stronger foundation for partner marketing.
      • Built a bespoke sales funnel with partner Lemonade on top of their APIs, embedded directly in the Change-of-Address flow, lifting conversions by 56%.
      • Led the replatforming of the marketing site from WordPress to a modern MDX-based stack on a one-month deadline, using a multi-agent AI pipeline to export and convert the blog archive — retiring Pantheon hosting and saving $144K a year.
      • Partnered with engineering managers and directors on a cost-reduction strategy, identifying services to replatform away from and scoping the full timeline, cost and projected savings.
      • Led the team’s AI adoption initiative as the go-to engineer for AI-assisted development, building tools and workflows that helped teammates put AI to work day to day.
      • Led user research and shipped eight conversion-focused landing-page projects that together drove a 40% increase in landing-page conversions and revenue.
      • React
      • TypeScript
      • MDX
      • Partner API integrations
      • AI-assisted development
      • Conversion optimization
      • User research

    3. Senior Software Engineer, Make

      Full-time

      · 1 yr 6 mos

      North Carolina

      • Partnered with product managers on user-centered designs that measurably improved usability.
      • Produced wireframes and high-fidelity interfaces in Whimsical and Figma, tightening the design process.
      • Led the design and development of UI component libraries, simplifying both the user and the developer experience.
      • Integrated third-party services into a custom web application to extend the product’s reach.
      • React
      • TypeScript
      • Design systems
      • Figma
      • Whimsical

    4. Frontend Developer, Filo

      Full-time

      · 2 yrs 8 mos

      North Carolina

      • Built a chat application embedded on partner sites to generate leads and lift conversion and revenue.
      • Introduced MobX-State-Tree for robust, declarative state management across the codebase.
      • Built partner admin tools for designing finite-state-machine chat flows, brand-themed chat experiences and real-time visualizations.
      • React
      • MobX-State-Tree
      • State machines
      • Data visualization

  2. Frontend Developer

    Nutrien Ag Solutions

    · 6 mos

    Loveland, Colorado

    • Built a React Native application for web, iOS and Android to support agricultural commerce.
    • Streamlined the sales flow with user-friendly sales-document creation and ordering.
    • Built, styled and refactored React/Redux components, refreshing the design of legacy screens.
    • Integrated third-party marketing platforms such as HubSpot through custom Node.js APIs.
    • Practiced test-driven development with Jest and Enzyme, following Airbnb’s JavaScript style guide.
    • Worked in a squad-and-chapter Agile model, pairing closely with senior full-stack engineers.
    • React Native
    • React
    • Redux
    • Node.js
    • Jest
    • HubSpot

  3. Software Developer

    Heartland Payment Systems

    · 6 mos

    • Built and restyled Angular components for a point-of-sale application.
    • Debugged the iOS and Android builds of the mobile POS app.
    • Tested and troubleshot TCP/UDP networking and data sync between devices.
    • Wrote Jasmine unit tests to keep code coverage at target, in an Agile team using Jira, Bitbucket and Git.
    • Angular
    • JavaScript (ES6+)
    • Jasmine
    • HTML5
    • CSS3

  4. Freelance UI/UX Developer

    McGlynn Enterprises, Inc. · Freelance

    · 3 yrs 1 mo

    • Designed and built the website and order-management e-commerce flow for meal-prep delivery service Fit Fresh Co., with PayPal and Stripe payments.
    • Designed and developed an easy-to-manage, blog-ready site for digital marketing agency The Digital Avocado, and wrote a 2,000-word e-commerce marketing article to support launch SEO.
    • Built mobile-first, responsive sites with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery.
    • JavaScript
    • jQuery
    • Stripe
    • PayPal
    • Responsive design