Chris Strahl
CEO at Knapsack
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Strahl is a serial entrepreneur and CEO with 10+ years of experience building design systems and product-led companies from Portland, Oregon. As co-founder and CEO of Knapsack he helps teams ship consistent applications faster while also hosting the Design Systems Podcast to surface practical cross-discipline insights. His background spans founding product companies, leading enterprise sales and business development at firms like Phase2 and Acquia, and driving multi-million dollar programs and partnerships. That blend of product, go-to-market, and engineering management is rooted in an MBA and early hands-on technical work—including modding classic id-Tech games and creating community mods for titles like STEF2 and MOH Warchest. He’s known for translating complex design and engineering problems into repeatable patterns and commercial lines of business. Practical, curiosity-driven, and comfortable switching between code-level thinking and boardroom strategy.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Organizational Behavior, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Organizational Behavior at Washington State University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
discord10
windows8
notepad8
cpp7
editor6
bsp1
compiler1
adobe-experience-manager1
decompiler1
sling1
aem1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
HaZardModding/hzm-stef2-coop-mod-gamefiles
Jun 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:579 commits, 767 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
HaZardModding/_EF2-GAME-SOURCE
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
EF2 Gamecode Updated, Fixed and Cleaned up a bit
Contributions:5 releases, 2 PRs, 422 pushes in 11 months
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