# Chris Pardy (@chris.pardy.family)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/chris.pardy.family
Headline: Director of Engineering
Location: Boston

## About

12+ years of engineering leadership experience at high growth companies. Proven success in architecting from the ground up, expanding teams, and establishing a culture of innovation and excellence. Strengths in people management/organization design, being a hands-on technologist, and also driving strategy to ensure scalable systems are built that not only meets user needs but also accelerate business goals. Experience at companies from seed stage through IPO. Strong attention to detail and thrives in a challenging, fast-paced environment.

Frameworks & Architecture: AWS ∘ React ∘ JUnit, NUnit, jest ∘ Microservices ∘ Event Driven Architecture ∘ Continuous Integration and Delivery ∘ Agile Development  Languages and Tools: Typescript ∘ Python ∘ Java ∘ C# ∘ Kotlin ∘ SQL ∘ DynamoDB ∘ Kafka ∘ Jenkins ∘ Snowflake ∘ Kibana

## Experience

- **Software Engineering Intern at Red Hat** (2009 – 2009)
  Worked within the SELinux team to develop an improved administration application for SELinux management.
- **Senior Software Engineer at Fitbit** (2014 – 2015)
- **Senior Software Engineer at RateGravity** (2017 – 2023)
- **Lead Engineer at Own Up** (2019 – 2023)
- **Software Engineer at Vistaprint** (2010 – 2011)
- **Webmaster - Drama/Theatre Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute** (2008 – 2010)
  Built and Maintained the Drama/Theatre department website, including building tooling to allow student producers and directors control over webpages for their shows.
- **Lead Software Engineer at Vistaprint** (2013 – 2014)
  • Acted as technical lead for several new product launches with a focus on integration with 3rd party printing systems.
  • Engaged with manufacturing engineers to gather requirements and make improvements to our manufacturing automation systems.
  • Mentored junior developers both on Vistaprint specific topics as well as engineering best practices such as Unit Testing and software architecture.
- **Lead Engineer at RateGravity** (2018 – 2023)
- **Director of Engineering at Newfire Global Partners** (2023 – present)
- **Lead Software Engineer at Fitbit (now part of Google)** (2015 – 2017)
  • Technical Lead on a coaching feature leveraging the large Fitbit data set to enable users to find ways to improve their health rather than simply logging data. Assessed and adapted big data, analytics systems to stream process thousands of messages per-second
  • Started the Weight and Nutrition engineering team. Responsible for the technical roadmap and health of the Weight and Food logging components of Fitbit, including the Mobile APIs and SQL databases
  • Launched the GuidedGoal Setting onboarding feature, as lead engineer, which included designing a reusable survey system, and complete continuous integration and deployment pipeline on Apache AuroraandMesos
  • Architected and implemented the new ecommerce system. Led the team responsible for building critical path components like the shopping cart and inventory system.
- **Director of Engineering at Own Up** (2023 – 2023)
  • Established the long-term technical vision. As part of the leadership team, collaborated on strategy and business model evolution to react to market needs
  • Coached the teams to ensure systems were built to meet future business needs by providing a mix of direct design, mentoring, and hands-on guidance
  • Grew the engineering org from one person to 20+ engineers on five teams in 18 months
  • Collaborated with product leadership to define department OKRs and product roadmap. Built dashboards to track KRs and KPIs
  • Integrated machine learning models to support decision making in the business rules engine
  • Directed an external security audit for penetration testing. Resolved security vulnerabilities and lead department wide security training
  • Established engineering organization standards: career ladder, competencies, a yearly review process, and hiring best practices
  • Managed both individual contributors and managers. Created a culture of continuous learning focused on innovation, collaboration, and accountability. Provided regular learning and development opportunities for engineers to explore new technical areas and bring those learnings back to the team. Resulted in no attrition over 5 years
  • Coached engineers to establish a customer centric culture, and quality mindset where everyone was accountable for the quality and usability of the work they delivered
  • Provided code and architecture reviews for engineers to ensure our systems were easily maintained
  • Selected and managed outside contractors to augment in-house staffing where hiring didn't align with long-term org strategy
  • Championed and built early iterations of the CI/CD pipeline leveraging GitHub Actions, AWS CloudFormation, and Rollup.js that allowed 5 teams to maintain 50+ microservices and get new features to production in hours instead of days
  • Identified parts of our Typescript codebase that could be open-sourced and acted as primary maintainer

## Education

- **Worcester Polytechnic Institute** — B.S Computer Science (2006 – 2010)

## Skills

- TypeScript
- Scrum
- React
- Java
- C#
- Engineering Management
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- .NET Core
- Distributed Systems
- Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
- Node.js
- Agile Methodologies
- E-Commerce
- Linux
- Unit Testing
- Software Design
- HTML
- Leadership
- Software Engineering
- Design Patterns
- WPF
- Test-Driven Development
- GraphQL
- PostgreSQL
- CSS
- Visual Studio
- .NET
- SQL
- Startups
- MySQL
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Leading Development Teams
- jQuery
- JavaScript
- Python
- .NET Framework
- TypeScript
- Director level
- Microservices
- Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
- Unix
- TypeScript
- TypeScript
- AT Protocol

## Publications

- 2. — fictitious-musings.pckt.blog (https://fictitious-musings.pckt.blog/2-zcezdj6)
- 1. — fictitious-musings.pckt.blog (https://fictitious-musings.pckt.blog/the-end-and-the-begining-pqkjfky)
- Network Effects — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mkztfy762c2j)
- Adventures in an App View — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mjximualsk26)
- The AI future — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mjfvot5fus2r)
- Mono Repo v. Multiple Repos
- The Digital Joiner — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3miekhr4muc26)
- Cozy Corner DevLog #2 — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mhrm7xgass2u)
- Cozy Corner Devlog #1 — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mhg3mq5tqk2p)