Chris Dary
Co-Founder Engineer at Reddit
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Dary is a product-focused engineer and founder with 17 years of experience building and leading web engineering teams, currently co-founding a game studio in San Francisco. He has led large, impact-driven orgs at Reddit—owning moderation, governance, and IPO-related systems—and scaled teams and culture at Mailchimp and Etsy while shipping data-driven product experiments. Equally comfortable writing Python backend services and shipping front-end improvements (notably contributions to Reddit codebases and the widely used Requests library), he blends hands-on craftsmanship with empathetic leadership. Chris cares about online communities and tools for social change, and he has a track record of turning experiments into substantial ARR and product decisions. He’s as likely to be heads-down coding a tricky feature as mentoring managers and shaping engineering levels and processes across an organization.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Github Skills (20)
localstorage10
json10
javascript10
python10
utf10
css10
http10
user-interface10
chrome-extension10
google-chrome-extension10
reddit10
http-request10
html10
testing9
debug9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
umbrae/jsonlintdotcom
May 2011 - Jun 2021
Source code for jsonlint.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 10 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on front-end development tasks, enhancing the user interface and overall user experience. They added features such as URL proxying and JSON compression options. Furthermore, the user addressed bug fixes and made the application compatible with offline usage.
jsonlint
reddit-archive/reddit
Mar 2014 - Mar 2016
historical code from reddit.com
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:148 commits, 47 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on implementing front-end features and improvements related to user interface interactions and configuration within the reddit platform. They added functionality for dynamically targeting links and content using Javascript and modified HTML templates to incorporate these changes. Furthermore, they made changes to the backend code, specifically to configure new window preferences and manage how they are applied throughout the platform. The user also contributed to the underlying framework by adding support for trending subreddits.
pythonprawjavascripthistoricalarchiver
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