Chris Slowe
Senior Technical Fellow at Reddit, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Slowe is a seasoned technology leader and founding engineer of Reddit with 18 years of experience building scalable, high-traffic web platforms and leading engineering teams through startup, acquisition, and IPO. As Reddit’s longtime CTO and now its first Senior Technical Fellow, he has driven core architecture, security, site integrity, and the migration from a monolith to containerized, Kubernetes-based services. His hands-on background spans backend systems, data pipelines that handle tens of thousands of events per second, anti-abuse tooling, and API and email handling work preserved in the historical reddit codebase. He combines deep technical craftsmanship—grounded in a PhD in Physics—with product-level judgment honed by running operations at one of the world’s largest sites. Known for obsessing over testing and dependability, he focuses on systems that scale reliably rather than flashy features. Based in San Francisco, he also advises and co-founds smaller ventures, bringing startup agility to large-scale engineering problems.
17 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Harvard University
English
Github Skills (10)
api10
sqlalchemy10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
emailjs9
postgresql9
e-mail9
mailer9
database-management8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
reddit-archive/reddit
Jun 2008 - Sep 2016
historical code from reddit.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:187 commits, 15 PRs, 57 pushes in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on back-end development, specifically addressing dependency management and API functionalities within the reddit codebase. Their contributions included fixing issues related to dependency versions, modifying and expanding existing API endpoints to handle non-logged-in user options, and extending sharing capabilities to accommodate reply-to addresses and message bodies. They also added features for email queue and handling to the site.
pythonprawjavascripthistoricalarchiver
KeyserSosa/HX711
Jun 2020 - Mar 2024
An Arduino library to interface the Avia Semiconductor HX711 24-Bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) for Weight Scales.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
scalesmakers24-bithx711arduino-library
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