Chris
Anderson
I'm a creative engineer based in Miami with fifteen years of experience building digital products. I grew up on the Massachusetts-Rhode Island border and spent twelve or so years in New York City building the technical skills that fuel the projects I work on now. I love art, fashion, design, and being on the beach. I run Superstar Stretch Club on South Beach on Wednesday nights and I build websites for brands I believe in.
I studied at Fordham University before graduating from Hunter College with a degree in Women and Gender Studies and a minor in Sociology.
I grew up professionally at Code and Theory, a digital agency where I climbed from Development Intern to Associate Director of Technology. I started there at eighteen and spent years building the kind of technical foundation you can only build by doing. Learning how to solve hard problems, recognizing patterns, finding elegant solutions to messy situations. Skills that extended well beyond the code itself, into how to lead a project, communicate with a client, mentor someone earlier in their career, and work across disciplines with designers, strategists, and producers. During that time I worked with major brands across fashion, tech, news, and media, including CNN, CNBC, Mailchimp, Apple, Adidas, Maybelline, and Hearst, among others. From there I joined Zocdoc as a Senior Frontend Engineer on their Design Systems team, where I worked on the component library and design system infrastructure that powers their product.
Since going independent I have been building full-stack products end to end alongside the team at MISC. Working with clients like Sidekick, Astrid, and Aleo my work has included pitching stacks, working directly with client teams to understand their needs, and building sites from the ground up. Most of our projects have been built on a Next.js and Contentful stack, deployed on Vercel or Netlify. I have designed and built content models, connected them to the frontend, and trained teams on how to manage and enter content. I have stayed on retainer for clients building new features, maintaining codebases, and working with internal teams to address issues as they come up.
Right now I am building Superstar Stretch Club on South Beach and working with brands like Kitten Tropic. If you have a creative project that you think I would be a good fit for, I would love to hear about it.
