Chris Ostrowski
Chief Technology Officer at Dutchie
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Ostrowski is a seasoned technology leader and founding CTO with 13 years of experience building product-driven engineering organizations, currently leading the technology strategy at Dutchie. He has a track record of founding and scaling startups through acquisition—most recently guiding RetireUp and RepPro to exits—and combines hands-on engineering with strategic product delivery. A pragmatic polyglot comfortable in Ruby, JavaScript, and Crystal, he focuses on building systems that democratize access and normalize complex workflows. Based in Detroit, he excels at turning early-stage ideas into production-grade platforms while growing high-performing teams. Chris brings entrepreneurial grit from running multiple ventures and an engineer-first mindset that keeps him close to code even while shaping company-wide technical direction.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
jquery-plugin10
reader10
multithreading10
mvc10
ruby10
pdf-generation10
rack10
vanilla-javascript10
javascript10
haml10
sidekiq10
html10
jruby10
rails10
sprockets10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TheKidCoder/Gauze
Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
GetDutchie/SecretsManager
Sep 2019 - Aug 2020
Ruby + AWS Secrets Manager
Contributions:16 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
secrets-managerrubysecretsaws-secrets-manageraws
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