Chris Chalstrom
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolChris Chalstrom is a Staff Software Engineer based in Fort Collins, Colorado, with 11 years of industry experience and a strong focus on front-end web engineering, particularly React. He has progressed from internships and early engineering roles to senior and staff positions at Amazon, SendGrid, Twilio, and Stripe, where he now drives technical direction. Known for blending hands-on coding with tech leadership, he spent multiple years as a tech lead at Stripe before returning as a staff engineer, demonstrating both delivery and people-facing impact. His background includes scientific web applications at NSIDC and high-scale communication and payments platforms, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for performance and reliability. Comfortable across the stack, he brings production-grade front-end expertise and an eye for building maintainable UI systems at scale. Outside day-to-day engineering, his career path suggests a habit of tackling complex domains and elevating team practices rather than just individual features.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Colorado State University
Github Skills (35)
sendgrid10
svgr10
travis-ci9
static-site9
react-modal9
react8
markdown8
twilio8
algolia8
gatsby7
documentation6
textarea6
exec5
spawn5
editors5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chrischalstrom/threejs-playground
Jan 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 15 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 11 months
chrischalstrom/chrischalstrom.github.io
Apr 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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