Chris Shea
Principal Engineer at Syndio
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Shea is a Principal Engineer in New York with 12 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across startups and mission-driven organizations. He combines a rigorous math background and an MFA in creative writing to produce readable, well-tested systems and clear technical documentation. Skilled in Scala and Clojure, Chris has bootstrapped new projects, modernized legacy platforms, and scaled services that handled millions of users and complex election data pipelines. He has led hiring, onboarding, and cross-functional alignment as an engineering leader and architected production-grade pipelines and microservices at Democracy Works and Patch. Known for pragmatic clean code and an eye for developer ergonomics, he also brings an unusual blend of analytical and narrative thinking to engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MFA, Writing, MFA, Writing at School of the Art Institute of ChicagoBA, Math and Literature, BA, Math and Literature at University of California, Santa Barbara
Github Skills (179)
firefox-webextension10
firefox-addon10
ruby10
elections10
webextension10
thunderbird10
linux10
firefox10
preserve10
macos10
package-manager10
mozilla10
homebrew10
democracy9
gecko9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tie-rack/pnglitch
Nov 2018 - Mar 2021
Glitch a PNG in your browser!
Contributions:7 PRs, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
glitchpngimagebrowser
tie-rack/internet-start-page
Jun 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:49 pushes in 9 years 10 months
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