Chris Killpack
Software Engineer at Stealth Startup
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Killpack is a seasoned software engineer and engineering manager with 14 years of experience building scalable systems, APIs, and financial services infrastructure across companies like Square, Google, and EA. He led Square’s Installments loan servicing and Developer APIs teams, driving reimplementations, reliability improvements, regulatory remediation, and cross-company API principles that became widely adopted internally. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and technical leadership, he has shipped backend services, localization and activation systems, and partnered integrations with firms like Intuit. Early-career work at Google includes rewrites of Google Maps for mobile and monetization systems at YouTube, while his game-engine and tools background at EA reflects deep performance and pipeline expertise. Based in San Francisco, he now contributes to a stealth startup while bringing a pragmatic, audit-ready approach to risk-sensitive systems. An understated through-line in his career is turning complex, failure-prone domains into simpler, observable platforms that teams and regulators can trust.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (49)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chriskillpack/bbcdisasm
Mar 2015 - May 2022
Disassembler for Acorn DFS images and 6502 programs
Contributions:44 commits, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 2 months
chriskillpack/modplayer
May 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:92 pushes, 15 branches, 3 tags in 4 years 7 months
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