Chris Balz
Ex-Apple, Accel - SWE Mgmt Exec Consultant Scales Your Systems And Perfects Your Retention at Self-employed
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Balz is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years of experience scaling front-end and full-stack systems at companies from Apple and Yahoo to fintech and robotics startups. He combines hands-on TypeScript and JavaScript architecture expertise with management chops—mentoring teams, performing root-cause analyses, and contributing production code to core engines and test frameworks. Known for improving retention and performance, he has led platform engineering for a $3B credit union and helped launch Google’s smart checking backend featured in the WSJ. An inventor with multiple patents and a longtime tinkerer (coding since the Apple II era), he pairs pragmatic product sensibilities with security-focused engineering. Based in Dallas, he now consults to help organizations reduce costs, harden systems, and eliminate cross-platform bugs.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
A.S., Internet Technology-Web Programming, A.S., Internet Technology-Web Programming at Foothill CollegeMS, Software Engineering from the Computer Science Department, MS, Software Engineering from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBA, Honors Humanities: Modern Thought and Literature, BA, Honors Humanities: Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University
french (tres rouille)
Github Skills (200)
gesture-recognizer10
ui-components10
testing10
serverless10
browser10
firefox10
touchscreen10
html10
cucumber10
svelte10
user-interface10
web-components10
frontend10
python10
declarative10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
nottoseethesun/doorsinpoetryandhistory
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
Website for "Burning the May Tree: The Sacrifice of Jim Morrison"
Contributions:4 reviews, 16 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 3 months
reactmorrisonmod-managerworld-of-warcraftdotnetnuke
nottoseethesun/vibrashank
Aug 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:55 commits, 9 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 8 months
reactweb-front-endinternalsjavascriptcursor
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