Chris Bala
Software Engineer at Stripe
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Bala is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building production systems across startups and large tech companies, currently contributing at Stripe in California. He spent five years at Amazon prior to Stripe and brings hands-on product and engineering experience from co-founding and serving as CTO at PolyRents. His background blends technical delivery with business sensibilities from a Business Administration education and study abroad at Waseda University. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he has experience shipping end-to-end solutions and scaling teams’ efforts. Notably, he explicitly avoids crypto work, signaling focused domain preferences and pragmatic project selection. Based in the U.S. West Coast, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with platform-scale engineering experience.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Study abroad, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Study abroad, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at 早稲田大学 / Waseda UniversityCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English, Japanese
Github Skills (200)
testing10
drag10
sortable10
schema10
jsx10
type-inference10
html10
browser-detection10
json10
schema-validation10
shim10
nodejs10
svelte10
mongodb10
css10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chrbala/single-schema
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:113 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
chrbala/parse-redux
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:63 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
javascriptparse-sdksdkreduxparse
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