Chris Cartlidge
Senior Director Of Engineering at OpenTable
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Cartlidge is a Senior Director of Engineering with 11 years of experience scaling consumer growth and engineering organizations at OpenTable, currently leading a 28-engineer, multi-country Diner Growth charter spanning Apps, SEO, AdTech and Direct. He has a track record of turning OKRs into measurable outcomes—driving 24% app install growth, 25% bookings uplift and more than doubling ROAS through enhanced conversions in 2025. Chris specializes in running zero-downtime global migrations, building self-serve analytics platforms (GA→Mixpanel), and launching AdTech enablement teams that bridge product and marketing. He’s an effective coach who has grown senior engineers into managers and established DR playbooks and quarterly drills that became organizational standards. Based in London and grounded in a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Leeds, he combines hands-on technical delivery with organizational design patterns like PODs to create autonomous, outcome-driven teams.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Leeds
English
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Github Skills (110)
vagrantfile10
npm-package10
ui-composition10
serverless10
opencomponents10
internationalization10
continuous-delivery10
validation10
localization10
dates10
translation10
intl10
typescript10
serverless-framework10
todomvc10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
opencomponents/oc-graphql-client
Feb 2017 - Jan 2020
OpenComponents Apollo client plugin for GraphQL
Contributions:4 releases, 20 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 11 months
graphql-subscriptionsgraphqlapollo-clientapolloopencomponents
opentable/image-optimizer
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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