Head of Solutions · API & Systems Integration Expert · Technical Pre-Sales · eCommerce, Smart Buildings & Healthcare
I'm a Solutions Architect with 10+ years of experience designing and delivering complex API integrations, platform partnerships, and mobile application architectures. I help engineering teams and partners connect systems at scale across eCommerce (Shopify), Smart Building / IoT (BACnet), and Healthcare (HL7), while keeping security and compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR) built in from day one.
Areas of expertise: Solutions Architecture · Integration Architecture · API Strategy · Technical Pre-Sales · Partner Engineering · Social Commerce · Smart Buildings · Healthcare Interoperability · Security & Compliance
Driving merchant success through platform-wide partner integrations.
- Social commerce partnerships: Scoped and delivered integration strategies for major partners including Meta (Facebook & Instagram), Google, TikTok, and Pinterest.
- API strategy & partner engineering: Guided partner engineering teams through Shopify's product and API landscape (REST & GraphQL) to ensure full commerce life-cycle compatibility.
Leading technical solution design and compliance for mobile applications.
- Security & compliance leadership: Led the implementation of SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance programs.
- Pre-sales solution architecture: Designed mobile app solutions for customers across a wide range of industries and environments.
Designing global-scale smart building and healthcare interoperability solutions.
- Smart building / IoT integration: Architected solutions for global smart building projects using BACnet, REST, and SOAP.
- Healthcare interoperability: Led technical discovery for healthcare integrations based on HL7 standards.
Custom solution design for North American retailers.
- Retail integration architecture: Developed technical architectures for major Canadian and US retailers to streamline digital grocery and eCommerce workflows.
| Category | Skills |
|---|---|
| Integration & API Design | REST APIs, GraphQL, SOAP, Event-Driven Architecture, Webhooks |
| Cloud Platforms | AWS, Microsoft Azure |
| Protocols & Data | HL7, BACnet, SQL, Telnet |
| Programming | Python (Data Science, NLP, Machine Learning), JavaScript, HTML, CSS |
| Security & Compliance | SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR |
| Platforms & Domains | Shopify, Social Commerce, Mobile Apps, Smart Buildings / IoT, Healthcare IT |
- B.Sc. Applied Computer Science - Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW), Germany
- Data Science & Machine Learning Certificates - BrainStation, Toronto (NLP and Python data pipelines)
- ITIL Foundation Certificate
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christoph-rieger
- 📍 Based in Cornwall, Prince Edward Island, Canada
- 🌍 Fluent in English and German
Open to conversations about solutions architecture, API integrations, partner engineering, and technical pre-sales.