Chris Pasakarnis
Head Of Technical Strategy
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Pasakarnis is a product-focused engineering leader with over 15 years in software organizations and nearly a decade of hands-on experience leading teams and technical strategy. Currently Head of Technical Strategy at dbt Labs, he has a track record of reorganizing engineering orgs, building cloud-native HIPAA-compliant systems, and shipping data-intensive SaaS products in healthcare and fintech. He’s led end-to-end implementations, designed clinical data models and integrations, and driven migrations from legacy stacks to scalable microservices and Kubernetes platforms. As a founder and interim CTO he combines startup grit with enterprise delivery practices—hiring, performance management, and roadmap alignment are part of his toolkit. He’s comfortable across the stack (Go, Python, Node, Postgres, Redshift, Kubernetes) and often pairs architectural vision with pragmatic delivery tactics. Based in the United States with a BA from Haverford, he brings a rare blend of product empathy and operational rigor that surfaces in both clinical and commercial software initiatives.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Political Science, BA, Political Science at Haverford CollegeAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
English, Japanese, German
Github Skills (36)
http-response8
development-tools7
stream7
api6
cli5
aws-s35
nodejs5
aws5
dbt5
docker5
node-module5
golang4
containerization4
development-environment4
fastest3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chrispasakarnis/http-to-s3
Oct 2017 - Dec 2019
Node module to directly stream HTTP response bodies to S3
Contributions:4 commits, 3 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 2 months
stream-httpnode-modulehttp-responsenodejsstream
oncoramedical/tap-s3-csv
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 1 PR in 10 months
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