# Chris Boyd

Jacksonville, FL

## Profile

Senior Director of Frontend Platforms at FIS with 15+ years building scalable
enterprise architectures and high-velocity engineering organizations. Leads
AI-native platforms, design systems, and teams across mobile and web.

## Experience

### Senior Director, Frontend Platforms

**FIS** - Jacksonville, Florida - 2026-Present

- Lead Frontend Platforms for a Fortune 500 fintech, making AI-native
  experiences secure, fast, and consistent across mobile and web.
- Build shared platforms, design systems, and engineering teams that multiply
  developer velocity while preserving the trust required in regulated finance.

### Head of Mobile

**The Cigna Group** - Charlotte, North Carolina - 2024-2026

- Led a 50+ person global engineering organization and MyCigna platform
  modernization, aligning teams to unified architecture while integrating
  predictive AI and geospatial intelligence.
- Architected a unified enterprise design system and React component library
  replacing legacy isolated stacks, enforcing WCAG 2.1 AA compliance and Core
  Web Vitals benchmarks across all digital touchpoints.
- Engineered a TypeScript-first, single-source-of-truth frontend platform that
  eliminated redundant codepaths, improving Core Web Vitals scores by 40% and
  accelerating feature parity for critical care services.

### Director of Mobile Engineering

**Ally Financial** - Charlotte, North Carolina - 2022-2024

- Led Mobile Reimagined, re-architecting the core consumer platform and
  modernizing SDLC governance for the world's largest digital-only bank.
- Engineered a platform stability initiative that optimized system reliability,
  reducing critical error rates from greater than 3% to 0.01% within six weeks.

### Founder

**Apptitude** - New Orleans, Louisiana - 2012-2022

- Directed global engineering teams delivering Top 5 digital platforms,
  including high-throughput notification architectures for United Airlines and
  location-intelligence ecosystems for The Houston Zoo.

## Skills

Strategy, Platform Engineering, AI-Native Frontend, Developer Experience,
Design Systems, Leadership, TypeScript, React, React Native, Swift, Kotlin,
WCAG, Core Web Vitals

## Links

- [chrisboyd.me](https://chrisboyd.me)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherboyd/)