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Christopher Shim

@christophershim

Full-stack software engineer with 6+ years building production web and backend systems in fintech, payments, and banking.

Jamaica
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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to ship reliable, end-to-end features in fintech—owning APIs, dashboards, and integrations with strong engineering quality (testing, CI/CD, and performance), using React/TypeScript plus Node/.NET to solve real merchant and banking problems.

I’m a full-stack software engineer with 6+ years building production web and backend systems across fintech, payments, and banking. I’m strongest in React, TypeScript, Node.js/Express, and .NET Core, with PostgreSQL/SQL, Docker, and CI/CD, and I’m comfortable owning a feature end to end—from database to UI.

In my recent role, I built merchant admin dashboard features in React/TypeScript, implemented webhook signature-verification middleware (QStash/Upstash) using the captured raw request body, and developed onboarding ID-verification validation logic across multiple entity types. Earlier, I helped reduce development and improve performance for a core banking application (including migrating a module to Angular) and strengthened reliability by cutting deployment times with Kubernetes and Helm and raising server-side reliability through unit testing.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Dime Pay

Nov 2024 - Present (1 year 7 months)

Built merchant admin dashboard features in React/TypeScript, including beneficial-owner compliance review flows aligned with evolving backend API contracts. Implemented QStash/Upstash webhook signature-verification middleware to eliminate intermittent byte-level signature failures and developed onboarding ID-verification validation across multiple entity types.

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Software Developer

Smart Mobile Solutions

Aug 2022 - Oct 2023 (1 year 2 months)

Developed a receipt-digitalisation application using React.js and Node.js, cutting banking-process completion time ~30%. Reduced deployment times ~40% with Kubernetes and Helm, improved server-side reliability ~70% with unit testing, and standardized API documentation in Postman to reduce onboarding time ~30%.

KPMG JESS logoKJ

React Frontend Developer

Apr 2020 - Jul 2022 (2 years 3 months)

Built and maintained features for a React-based talent-management platform across KPMG member firms by turning designs into responsive, reusable components. Improved application efficiency ~25% through rendering and load-time optimizations and integrated frontend with backend APIs while meeting enterprise security-compliance requirements.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Arizona State University logoAU

Arizona State University

Master of Computer Science, Big Data Systems

Master of Computer Science with a focus on Big Data Systems, expected to complete in December 2026.

UC

University of the Commonwealth Caribbean

Bachelor of Science, Information Technology

2018 - 2021

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology completed from August 2018 to December 2021.

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