Chris Coles
CTO, Co-Founder at Dollaride
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChris Coles is a seasoned engineering leader and technical co-founder with 11 years of experience building full‑stack web and mobile systems, cloud-native services, and scalable architectures. As CTO of Dollaride he led a team of engineers to build product, infrastructure, and partnerships that drove over $1M in ARR while bringing mobility solutions to transit‑underserved communities. Previously he led delivery of mission‑critical government and enterprise projects at Truss and Hackerati, shipping large‑scale systems using Go, TypeScript/React, AWS, and microservices patterns. A Columbia alumnus in Economics and Political Science who learned to code professionally afterward, Chris blends product sensibility and policy awareness with hands‑on engineering and team coaching. He volunteers teaching coding to incarcerated youth and volunteers with Habitat for Humanity, and outside work is an active real estate investor and fitness enthusiast—traits that reflect his practical, community‑focused approach to technology and leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Economics Political Science Anthropology, Economics Political Science Anthropology at Columbia University
Spanish, French, English
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Github Skills (18)
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Github contributions (5)
chrisrcoles/chrisrcoles.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jun 2024
Personal Blog
Contributions:8 PRs, 47 pushes, 5 branches in 9 years 6 months
raccoons-2014/stereogram
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:236 commits, 10 PRs, 20 pushes in 21 days
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