Chris Bell
Co-Founder CTO at Knock
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChris Bell is a veteran software leader and co-founder/CTO with 13 years of experience building scalable product-led platforms and developer-friendly APIs. As CTO of Knock he leads the engineering vision behind a cross-channel product engagement platform used by companies like Zapier, Webflow, and Vercel, combining Elixir-backed APIs with pragmatic front-end solutions. He has deep Elixir expertise—having organized EMPEX, co-hosted the ElixirTalk podcast, and led major Elixir migrations in production—and a track record of scaling teams and systems from early-stage to Series C. Comfortable at the intersection of product, design, and engineering, he’s helped lower operating costs and accelerate delivery through thoughtful architecture choices. Based in New York, he pairs hands-on coding experience with startup operator instincts and a history of advising and consulting across mobile, web, and cloud-native stacks.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Staffordshire
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Github Skills (147)
knock10
rails-gem10
hex10
tencent10
feed10
editor10
api10
notification10
editing10
amazon10
push-notifications9
sdk9
azure9
terraform9
react-native9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
knocklabs/knock-java
Jul 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:12 reviews, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 6 months
knocklabs/knock-ruby
Aug 2021 - May 2022
Official Ruby SDK for interacting with the Knock API
Contributions:2 releases, 21 reviews, 12 commits in 8 months
apiruby-gemknockrubysdk
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