# Chris Pardy (@pardy.at)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/pardy.at
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

## Career

- **Director of Engineering at Newfire Global Partners** (Nov 2023 - Present)
  Boston
- **Director of Engineering at Own Up** (Mar 2023 - Nov 2023)
  US
  • 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
- **Lead Engineer at Own Up** (Feb 2019 - Mar 2023)
- **Lead Engineer at RateGravity** (Sep 2018 - Mar 2023)
- **Senior Software Engineer at RateGravity** (May 2017 - Mar 2023)
  Boston
- **Lead Software Engineer at Fitbit (now part of Google)** (Jun 2015 - May 2017)
  Boston, Massachusetts, US
  • 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.
- **Senior Software Engineer at Fitbit** (Jan 2014 - Jun 2015)
  Boston
- **Lead Software Engineer at Vistaprint** (Jan 2013 - Jan 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.
- **Software Engineer at Vistaprint** (Jul 2010 - Jul 2011)
- **Webmaster - Drama/Theatre Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute** (Sep 2008 - May 2010)
  Worcester, MA
  Built and Maintained the Drama/Theatre department website, including building tooling to allow student producers and directors control over webpages for their shows.
- **Software Engineering Intern at Red Hat** (Jun 2009 - Aug 2009)
  Westford, MA
  Worked within the SELinux team to develop an improved administration application for SELinux management.

## Publications

- ACT THREE — The Lost Island — cavu.page (Sep 2026) https://cavu.page/did:plc:dp7v5b5kejmmzzpwmqyf5wj6/3mvq2t2v6qk2c/read/3mwlrxo6e5c22
- ACT TWO — The Lost Island — cavu.page (Sep 2026) https://cavu.page/did:plc:dp7v5b5kejmmzzpwmqyf5wj6/3mvq2t2v6qk2c/read/3mw7eqz22bc27
- The Lost Island – ACT ONE — The Lost Island — cavu.page (Sep 2026) https://cavu.page/did:plc:dp7v5b5kejmmzzpwmqyf5wj6/3mvq2t2v6qk2c/read/3mvq2t2v6qm2w
- The Lost Island — cavu.page (Sep 2026) https://cavu.page/did:plc:dp7v5b5kejmmzzpwmqyf5wj6/3mvq2t2v6qk2c/read/3mvq2t2v6ql2c
- Three Months After – Postlog — Honeyguide — cavu.page (Sep 2026) https://cavu.page/did:plc:dp7v5b5kejmmzzpwmqyf5wj6/3mrswpjbr2c23/read/3mum2ybb47s2i
- The Edge of Space(s) — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (Aug 2026) https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mu5akimbak2l
- Two Months After – Two Months Before — Honeyguide — cavu.page (Aug 2026) https://cavu.page/did:plc:dp7v5b5kejmmzzpwmqyf5wj6/3mrswpjbr2c23/read/3mtzenml6nk2m
- @dholms.at was right — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (Aug 2026) https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mtjcs75b7c2x
- One Month After – One Month Before — Honeyguide — cavu.page (Aug 2026) https://cavu.page/did:plc:dp7v5b5kejmmzzpwmqyf5wj6/3mrswpjbr2c23/read/3mtgotm52ns2a
- One Week After – One Week Before — Honeyguide — cavu.page (Aug 2026) https://cavu.page/did:plc:dp7v5b5kejmmzzpwmqyf5wj6/3mrswpjbr2c23/read/3msvj7ihgys2q
- Adversarial Spaces — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (Aug 2026) https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3msv77vpfnc2f
- One Day After – One Day Before — Honeyguide — cavu.page (Aug 2026) https://cavu.page/did:plc:dp7v5b5kejmmzzpwmqyf5wj6/3mrswpjbr2c23/read/3msfv6nljgc2i
- Zero – One Hour Before — Honeyguide — cavu.page (Jul 2026) https://cavu.page/did:plc:dp7v5b5kejmmzzpwmqyf5wj6/3mrswpjbr2c23/read/3mrswpjbr2e2o
- Honeyguide — cavu.page (Jul 2026) https://cavu.page/did:plc:dp7v5b5kejmmzzpwmqyf5wj6/3mrswpjbr2c23/read/3mrswpjbr2d2g
- Why Games? — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (Jul 2026) https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mrnj5injvs2m
- A funny thing happened in the Atmosphere — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (Jul 2026) https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mrkewcxqws2o
- gamesgamesgamesgames.games Intent to Launch (Jul 2026)
- What I'm building? - Cavu Reader — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (Jul 2026) https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mqcq6rz5gk24
- Parable of the Atmosphere — fictitious-musings.pckt.blog (Jun 2026) https://fictitious-musings.pckt.blog/parable-of-the-atmosphere-d8w923r
- Build Your Own CRDT (Jun 2026)
- CRDT's on ATProto (Jun 2026)
- 2. — fictitious-musings.pckt.blog (May 2026) https://fictitious-musings.pckt.blog/2-zcezdj6
- 1. — fictitious-musings.pckt.blog (May 2026) https://fictitious-musings.pckt.blog/the-end-and-the-begining-pqkjfky
- Network Effects — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (May 2026) https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mkztfy762c2j
- Adventures in an App View — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (Apr 2026) https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mjximualsk26
- The AI future — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (Apr 2026) https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mjfvot5fus2r
- Mono Repo v. Multiple Repos (Apr 2026)
- The Digital Joiner — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (Mar 2026) https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3miekhr4muc26
- Cozy Corner DevLog #2 — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (Mar 2026) https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mhrm7xgass2u
- Cozy Corner Devlog #1 — chrispardy.leaflet.pub (Mar 2026) https://chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mhg3mq5tqk2p

## Skills

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

## Education

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