Chris Baldauf
Principal Software Engineer at Toast
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Baldauf is a Principal Software Engineer and technology leader with 12+ years of experience delivering software architecture, product development, and data-driven solutions across companies like Toast, HubSpot, Cimpress, and GlobalSpec. He blends hands-on engineering with people management and an MBA-informed business perspective, having led teams for six years and driven rapid prototyping and Agile delivery that translate into measurable business value. His career shows a steady progression from individual contributor to engineering lead and principal roles, reflecting deep expertise in software architecture, project management, and hiring/mentoring. Based in Cambridge, MA, he excels at bridging product, data modeling, and engineering to accelerate outcomes while maintaining system reliability. A pragmatic problem solver, he often focuses on turning complex requirements into practical, testable designs that scale.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at University at AlbanyBS Computer and Systems Engineering, BS Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (160)
benchmark10
siege10
authentication10
azure-functions10
stress-testing10
performance-testing10
kong10
serverless10
serverless-applications10
api10
lambda10
vagrant10
hubspot-api10
artificial-intelligence10
aws-lambda10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Cimpress-MCP/deployment-tracker
Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
Collect deployment metadata from various deployment engines and forward them along to purpose-driven application endpoints for analysis later
Contributions:85 commits, 28 PRs, 52 pushes in 3 months
collectdevopsdeploymentendpointsdocker
Cimpress-MCP/vagrant-orchestrate
Dec 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:234 commits, 62 PRs, 152 pushes in 1 year 3 months
containersvagrantorchestrationdevopsdeployment
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