Chris Schepman
Spokane, WA · 509.961.0370 · chris@schepman.org · github.com/cschep
Skills
15+ years of experience building and maintaining performant, flexible, and useful software.
Languages: Go, Ruby, JavaScript, Kotlin, Python, TypeScript, Swift, Obj-C, SQL, Java, C/C++
Technologies: Rails, iOS, Ansible, Postgres, NGINX, AWS
Experience
Inferno Red Technologies — Senior Software Engineer
Remote · May 2026 – Present
- Supporting iOS / visionOS applications for an enterprise sports client
Sanctuary — Senior Software Engineer (Contract)
Remote · August 2025 – March 2026
- Contracted to build Ingredient AI, a web application powered by Elixir and the Phoenix framework
Two Barrels LLC — Senior Software Engineer
Spokane, WA · July 2024 – January 2025
- Built internal tooling (Rails, Vue.js) for the Customer Service team
Stripe — Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure)
Portland, OR / Remote · March 2022 – March 2023
- Primarily focused on schema sharing with Protocol Buffers across many repos
- Designed and launched a schema registry to facilitate the sharing of protocol buffers (JVM)
GameChanger — Senior Software Engineer
Portland, OR / Remote · November 2020 – March 2022
- Shipped features from planning to launch; from mobile (Swift, Kotlin) to the backend (TypeScript)
- Fulfilled the interim Tech Lead position for a three-month rotation
Acorns — Senior Software Engineer
Portland, OR / Remote · September 2019 – May 2020
- Launched new Acorns products on iOS: Smart Deposits / Early
- Architected a new tiered registration system that directly boosted profitability
Apple — Senior Software Engineer
Portland, OR / Remote · June 2017 – August 2019
- Member of the team that supported Apple News, Stocks, and Weather (Obj-C, Swift, iOS, MacOS)
Small Planet — Software Engineer
Brooklyn, NY · September 2016 – June 2017
- Rewrote (Swift 2→3) Planned Parenthood’s birth control and period tracking app “Spot On”
- Designed and built a shared logic engine in C++ used by iOS and Android clients
Hack Reactor — Technical Mentor
Remote · January 2015 – October 2015
- Taught expert level JavaScript and Computer Science fundamentals to groups of 15-30 students
- Ran 1:1 mentoring sessions and coached students through technical interview preparation
Simple — Software Engineer
Portland, OR · January 2013 – May 2014
- Maintained multiple Ruby (Rails, Sinatra, JRuby/JVM) services in production (AWS), including scripting deploys, production debugging, and database migrations
- Created tooling (Ruby on Rails) to solve Customer Support’s biggest problems
- Taught fellow employees web development at a regular event we called “Code Club”
Independent Projects
- Created and maintain all software for Baby Ketten Karaoke: iOS app, Rails backend for songbook management, private room karaoke system (Go / TypeScript)
- Created and maintain a bicycle suspension design testing app (Ruby / Rails) that automates suspension testing in OnShape for a major bicycle manufacturer
Education
Whitworth University, Spokane, WA — B.S. Computer Science
Completed June 2006
Portland State University, Portland, OR — Graduate coursework, Computer Science
2009–2010