Chris Fetherston
Staff Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Fetherston is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and managing high-impact web and mobile products, currently shaping platform work at Reddit. He progressed from hands-on product engineering to leadership roles at Tumblr—where he launched features like Group Chat, boosted messaging DAUs and shipped cross-platform client improvements—demonstrating a mix of product intuition and execution. Chris has a strong front-end pedigree and a track record of reducing technical debt, optimizing performance, and driving measurable growth (e.g., +12% web registrations, +30% app installs on a media landing page). He blends design sensibility from a BFA in Graphic Design with engineering rigor, having led teams across iOS, Android and API stacks and instituted modern web practices at CAIS. Known for mentoring and scaling teams through acquisitions and transitions, he focuses on clear goals, measurable outcomes, and pragmatic architecture. Based in Hoboken, NJ, he balances entrepreneurial side projects and consulting with senior engineering leadership at major consumer platforms.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Graphic Design, BFA, Graphic Design at Montclair State University
Github Skills (8)
parrot8
physics-engine8
physics8
rigid-bodies6
javascript6
canvas6
nodejs5
game-engine4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
fetherston/map-lasso
Oct 2012 - Jul 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 9 months
s5150/SMEC
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:3 PRs, 13 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
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