Chris Pappalardo
Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Pappalardo is a Managing Director and hands-on engineering leader in San Francisco with over two decades of experience bridging software engineering, financial audit, and valuation services. He architects and leads cloud-native FinTech platforms and AI-powered automation at Alvarez & Marsal, where he evolved a legacy valuation system into a SOC I Type II–certified, scalable AWS service and now heads the Eval platform and Innovation Team. A former CTO and co-founder who built end-to-end valuation software and infrastructure from scratch using Python, C++ and LAMP stacks, he combines deep accounting and risk management expertise (CPA background) with production-grade engineering. His work uniquely blends derivative valuation domain knowledge, regulatory rigor, and modern microservices, APIs, and ML tooling to deliver audit-ready, on-demand financial services. Known internally for turning esoteric valuation logic into repeatable, automated pipelines, he also designs and maintains the cloud infrastructure that underpins practice-wide API and containerized delivery. Based in the Bay Area, he brings a rare mix of senior advisory experience and coder-level execution to large-scale FinTech transformation.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Accounting, Bachelor of Science - BS Accounting at Loyola Marymount University, College of Business Administration
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Github Skills (146)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisPappalardo/eparse
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Excel spreadsheet crawler and table parser for data extraction and querying
Contributions:1 review, 11 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 year 9 months
ChrisPappalardo/stockbot
Sep 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:62 commits, 1 PR, 66 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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