Chris Mears
Principal Product Manager Founder at Burning Man Project
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Mears is a Principal Product Manager and founder with 13 years of cross-disciplinary experience marrying game development, LiveOps monetization, and large-scale event operations. Based in Oakland, he combines hands-on engineering and QA roots from Microsoft and Big Fish with strategic LiveOps and CS architecture at Product Madness to consistently boost engagement and revenue for long-tenured titles. Chris builds teams and processes from scratch—whether scaling population tracking for 70k+ events at Burning Man or creating monetization roadmaps that drive measurable efficiency gains—while training others to level up rapidly. Known for a generalist’s versatility, he moves fluidly between engineering, tech art, QA, and product to plug organizational gaps and ship high-impact features. He also applies his systems thinking to pro-bono public-health projects, demonstrating a pragmatic commitment to human-centered outcomes beyond pure metrics.
13 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Computer Programming, S-Rank Class, High School, Computer Programming, S-Rank Class at Independence High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Game and Simulation Programming, 6.9 GPA, Bachelor’s Degree, Game and Simulation Programming, 6.9 GPA at DeVry University
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Github contributions (5)
openbrewerydb/openbrewerydb-rails-api
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Official v1 Open Brewery DB REST API built with Ruby on Rails
Contributions:11 reviews, 199 commits, 125 PRs in 4 years 6 months
ruby-on-railsapirailsbreweryruby
chrisjm/Springboard-Coursework
May 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:53 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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