open to Summer & Fall 2027 SWE internships & freelance

Christopher Meyer

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Full-Stack Software Engineer

Currently a CS student at SIUE, based in Edwardsville, IL · St. Louis area.

[ hiring? ] [ freelance software development ]
Christopher Meyer
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Hello all! I’m Christopher Meyer, a computer science student at SIUE expected to graduate in December 2027. I am open to Software Engineering internships in Summer and Fall of 2027 as well as freelance software development opportunities.

This past summer, I worked as a Software Engineering Intern at Zipper, a studio management platform for boutique fitness studios. In addition to that, within the past year I’ve worked with multiple clients of local businesses to develop, host, and maintain websites, and I am open to working with more! I can build websites, applications, internal software tooling, APIs, etc. If you are looking for a developer—be that for a website or to help replace an internal software tool or system that you are frustrated with—feel free to reach out! Working with me, you get a tool built to do exactly what you want. No signing up, managing, and wrangling a generic product—I build it, host it, and maintain it for you, so all you have to do is use it.

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Featured Work

Three projects — a prototype-site CLI, production RAG, and a client mobile app in progress.

~/projects/site-builder Jun 2026

CLI tool that builds and deploys prototype sites

Site Builder

  • CLI tool that builds and deploys prototype sites for prospective clients.
  • Takes a prospective client’s URL, documents, or notes and returns a working, deployed prototype website in under 20 minutes.
  • Gates on site quality through an agentic review/fix pass, plus passing accessibility and Lighthouse score metrics.
  • Returns a live URL on Cloudflare Pages, making client outreach seamless.
  • TypeScript
  • Bun
  • Claude
  • Astro
  • Cloudflare Pages
  • Playwright
Code
~/projects/stafferai Mar 2026

Multi-Tenant RAG Application

StafferAI

  • Production, multi-tenant AI knowledge platform enabling teams to query internal documents with source-grounded responses and citations.
  • Org-scoped pgvector retrieval over Supabase Auth, RLS and RBAC.
  • Ingestion pipeline, Stripe subscriptions and per-tenant rate limiting.
  • Next.js
  • OpenAI
  • Supabase
  • pgvector
  • Stripe
Live Site Code
~/projects/procks in progress

Client project

Procks WIP

Building a social networking app for a client: a cross-platform iOS and Android app with a location-aware backend and a Python photo-matching worker.

  • Flutter
  • Dart
  • Firebase Auth
  • Firestore
  • Firebase Storage
  • Cloud Messaging
  • Cloud Functions (Node.js)
  • Python
  • OpenCV

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Experience

Shipping software with a team and building directly for clients.

  1. Zipper

    Software Engineer Intern

    –

    Remote

    • Shipped 50+ features and bug fixes across a studio management platform for boutique fitness studios, spanning a full-stack TypeScript codebase covering CRM, Stripe payments, scheduling, and staff management.
    • Extended an autonomous, agentic AI pipeline that drafts end-to-end code changes, advancing draft tickets to a runnable state and verifying them against live dev servers and the running web app.
    • Owned delivery of agent-assisted changes from incomplete tickets to production: investigated the application and codebase, designed implementation approaches, directed and iterated on fixes for security, architecture, functionality, code quality, and UI/UX, and validated releases through CI/CD.

  2. Self-Employed

    Freelance Software Developer

    – Present

    Remote

    • Designed, built, and deployed custom websites for local business owners end-to-end, earning 5-star client reviews.
    • Sourced and onboarded clients directly, delivering tailored full-stack sites; expanding the practice toward custom software systems that integrate or replace fragmented business tools and extend marketing automation.

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Recommendations

Feedback from people I’ve worked with.

Exceptional Intern, Rare Find

I was really surprised with Chris’s in-depth knowledge for his age and years of experience. … He quickly stood out across all other candidates I had met with over the previous months and years with his aptitude, intelligence, creativity, and drive. … Chris is a rare find and I can’t recommend him enough.

Kerry Ritter Co-founder, Zipper Managed Christopher directly · August 7, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Chris and I met after I saw his post in a local social group, advertising his freelance efforts and already showing his drive and eagerness to apply his craft. I scoped out his website and resume and saw that he was a university CS student and was leverage AI tools to make him more productive. So, obviously, the question was, “does Chris know what he’s doing, or just sending AI code out the door to pad his resume and GitHub?”

I was really surprised with Chris’s in-depth knowledge for his age and years of experience. We talked about his approaches to AI system context engineering and integrations, how he prefers to deploy his apps and databases, and what frameworks/libraries he enjoys and why. He quickly stood out across all other candidates I had met with over the previous months and years with his aptitude, intelligence, creativity, and drive.

He worked with us for a few months and he hit all the qualities and behaviors you could ask for in a junior, often exceeding expectations:

  • He worked autonomously but asked for help when he needed it, showing what he tried already and what particular sticking points he had.
  • He produced quality output, efficiently and well-validated.
  • He offered creative new solutions to our platform and to our developer experience.
  • He stayed on top of emerging technologies, offering his opinion and insights with clear understanding of the topic.

Chris is a rare find and I can’t recommend him enough.

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My Journey

From a first Java class in high school to shipping software for real users and clients.

  1. 2022

    First lines of Java

    I started introductory programming courses in Java at Edwardsville High School.

  2. 2023

    Building a foundation

    I continued Java through senior year and began AP programming courses, earning college credit and building a strong foundation in object-oriented programming.

  3. 2024

    From high school to web apps

    I graduated high school, began learning React and web development over the summer, and started a B.S. in Computer Science with a Mathematics minor at SIUE. I built my first app—a Twitter-style social media clone—and explored Chrome extensions, including FastGPT for ChatGPT.

  4. 2025

    Shipping projects, starting freelance

    I expanded from React into Next.js and built PlaySkillSphere, with real-time WebSocket lobbies and games on my own VPS, and DocuQuery, a document-chat/RAG app using Next.js and Supabase vector search. Near the end of the year, I began putting myself out there as a freelance software developer.

    Freelance · 2025 – Present

  5. 2026

    Building for clients and teams

    I built StafferAI, a production multi-tenant RAG platform with organization access controls, billing and rate limiting; gained website clients; and landed my first software engineering internship at Zipper. I’m now building Procks, a mobile social networking app for a client.

    I also built Site Builder, a CLI that generates and deploys prototype client sites. Next, I want to expand it into an outreach-to-demo-site tool for freelance web developers.

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Education

Aug 2024 – Fall 2027

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics

Edwardsville, IL · GPA 3.57 / 4.0

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scholarships

  • Cougar Pride
  • Johnetta Haley

relevant coursework

  • Algorithms & Data Structures
  • Operating Systems
  • Database & Web System Development
  • Programming Languages
  • Computer Organization & Architecture
  • Linear Algebra

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Skills

Languages

  1. TypeScript
  2. Python
  3. Java
  4. C++
  5. Rust
  6. PHP
  7. SQL
  8. HTML/CSS

Frameworks & Tech

  1. React / Next.js
  2. Node
  3. Express
  4. NestJS
  5. Supabase
  6. Stripe
  7. MongoDB

Tools

  1. Claude Code
  2. Neovim
  3. Git
  4. GitHub
  5. Docker
  6. Cloudflare
  7. AWS
  8. SSH
  9. Unix

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Beyond the Code

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Outside of work I like to hang out with friends and stay active. I go to the gym regularly, bike, and run. I also really enjoy traveling, especially to places like national parks. When I’m staying in, I like to read, watch movies, and listen to music.

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Get in touch

Open to Summer & Fall 2027 SWE internships & freelance. Drop a line.

contact.sh

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