Chris Berthe

I turn scattered frontend work into platforms teams build on.

I’m Chris Berthe, a frontend engineer and hands-on technical lead — thirteen years in. Montreal or remote, available now.

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ALDO Group Jun 2013–Mar 2016 · Developer to Team Lead

I replaced one-off storefront work with reusable systems.

Across four brands, I built a Middleman static-site system for the iCongo-to-Hybris migration, and a Ruby gem that let merchandising teams drive product and pricing data from Google Sheets.

Shopify Apr 2016–Sep 2021 · Developer to Dev Manager

I shaped Shopify’s free-theme platform for more than two million merchants.

I set Dawn’s technical direction, shipped Express in five weeks, and led a team of 12 frontend developers. I was also one of six people governing the API of Liquid, Shopify’s template language, alongside the CEO.

Loess Oct 2021–Feb 2024 · Co-founder & sole engineer

I turned two themes into a profitable two-person business.

As sole engineer, I cut the second build from roughly a year to four months while the company averaged about US$25K in monthly revenue, peaking at US$35K.

Archetype Themes Dec 2023–Dec 2025 · Head of Engineering

I collapsed a portfolio of separate themes into one shared platform.

Devkit combined reusable Liquid components, Shopify CLI tooling, and a design system built for accessibility, performance, and reuse.

Pixel Union Jan–Apr 2026 · Head of Engineering

I rebuilt in four months what took a team two years.

Archetype merged into Pixel Union under Tiny and I kept leading engineering. With full product ownership I rewrote Devkit end to end — CLI plugin, VS Code extension, Liquid renderer, and 49 frontend primitives — by building my whole workflow around AI.

What’s next

I want my work to be the reason a small team can ship like a big one.

The domain doesn’t matter to me — I’ll learn it. What matters is that it’s built for the web, that the people are sharp enough to argue well and decent enough to make that fun, and that I come out the other side knowing things I don’t now.

Senior IC or technical leadership. Scope over title.

chrisberthe@gmail.com