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