Summary
Chris Doyle is a seasoned Director of Engineering with 15+ years leading cross-functional teams to deliver resilient, cost-efficient software and infrastructure across startups and mid-market companies. Known for displacing the status quo, he blends hands-on engineering with executive-level program delivery—co-founding and building product and tech stacks at Tartan and saving $150K+ through infrastructure improvements at Atria. Chris excels at scaling engineering practices: instituting Agile, CI/CD, automated testing, and environment controls across organizations of 60+ developers and coordinating multi-million-dollar budgets and operations. He thrives on mentoring smart, candid teams, pushing experimentation while enforcing data-driven governance and automation to eliminate manual work. Based in Seattle, he brings a rare mix of operator grit, startup founder mentality, and enterprise discipline cultivated from roles as CTO, COO, and early software engineer. A persistent experimenter, his least successful projects were the ones where he stopped asking why—so he never does.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer