Chris Tickner
Product Manager at Kavoren Software
Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Tickner is an outcome-driven Product Manager and former software engineer with 13 years of experience building user-focused products and founding startups. He combines hands-on development chops with product leadership, having co-founded an online education platform, led product at Carb Manager and PokerAtlas, and contributed engineering to Breethe and DeskPro. Chris excels at increasing user engagement, mentoring teams, and shipping successful launches, often spotting growth opportunities that others miss. He currently splits his time between product roles and running Kavoren Software while joining TinyURL as a Product Manager, blending entrepreneurial agility with corporate scale. His background in finance and product management training gives him a data-informed approach to prioritization and monetization. Outside work he serves as Technical Lead for a local RFID race timing service, showing a practical interest in community-focused technical solutions.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Finance, General, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Finance, General at Saint Mary's UniversitySoftware Product Management, Software Product Management at Product School
English
Stackoverflow
2,018reputation
106kreached
18answers
17questions
Github Skills (43)
symfony-bundle10
bundle10
php10
php-framework10
symfony10
jquery-slider8
captcha7
prooph7
recaptcha7
elastica7
esi6
window-manager6
model-view-controller6
symfony-form6
ajax6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
christickner/go-blockchain
Feb 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 push in 2 years 1 month
christickner/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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