Chris Sackes
Engineering Manager at Chime
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Sackes is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building user-focused software and leading teams through product-driven engineering at companies including Lightstep (acquired by ServiceNow), ServiceNow, and now Chime. He blends a design-minded background from Stanford with hands-on engineering, consistently shipping delightful user experiences while diving deep into root-cause investigations to ensure impact. Comfortable scaling teams and systems, Chris has progressed from individual contributor roles to senior engineering leadership, steering cross-functional efforts in observability and consumer fintech contexts. His early work in UX, internships at Visa and design roles on campus inform a pragmatic approach to product and developer experience. Based in San Francisco, he pairs technical breadth with an appetite for mentoring driven, passionate engineers to make people’s lives better. An often-overlooked strength is his cross-cultural study and language exposure from time at Peking University, which helps him navigate diverse teams and global product considerations.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese Chinese History, Chinese Chinese History at Peking UniversityHigh School Engineering, High School Engineering at The High School for Math Science and EngineeringBachelor's Degree Symbolic Systems, Bachelor's Degree Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (6)
datasource8
lightstep7
graphite4
grafana4
monitoring4
prometheus3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lightstep/lightstep-metrics-datasource
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Lightstep's Grafana Datasource for Metrics
Contributions:4 releases, 13 reviews, 29 commits in 1 month
grafanaprometheusgrafana-datasourcedatasourcemetrics
cdsackes/cdsackes.github.io
Feb 2021 - Dec 2024
website repo v2
Contributions:9 PRs, 41 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 10 months
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