Chris Duffy

Email · GitHub · LinkedIn

Software engineer in Raleigh, NC with a long career in ecommerce and a current focus on agentic AI development — building the tooling, skills, and infrastructure that let AI coding agents do real, safe work in production systems. Comfortable from the storefront down to the deployment pipeline.

Focus

Agentic AI development

Designing tools, skills, and guardrails for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, MCP). Author of MageCLI, which gives agents structured, read-only-by-default access to Magento stores.

Infrastructure as code

Repeatable, version-controlled environments and deployments with Terraform and Ansible — infrastructure that is reviewed and provisioned like application code.

Ecommerce

Years of building and maintaining ecommerce platforms — deep Magento experience across storefront, REST/integration, and operations.

Experience

Application Architect · Atlantic BT

Jul 2005 — Present
  • Build agentic AI developer tooling, including MageCLI — a Go CLI that gives AI agents safe, structured access to Magento 2 stores.
  • Architect and maintain Magento ecommerce platforms across storefront, integrations, and operations.
  • Provision and manage infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible.

Education

B.S. Computer Science · North Carolina State University

2000 — 2004

Skills

  • Agentic AI / LLM tooling
  • Claude Code · Codex · MCP
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • React Native / Expo
  • Go
  • PHP
  • Magento
  • Supabase / PostgreSQL
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • AWS