Chris Vanderkolk
Engineering Manager at Zapier
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Vanderkolk is an energetic Engineering Manager with 9 years in software and 5+ years leading remote, distributed teams at Zapier, where he currently runs the Integration Quality team responsible for 250+ third-party integrations. He combines hands-on backend experience (Python/Django, Node.js) with a people-first leadership style, hiring and rapidly onboarding squads that have driven measurable outcomes like preventing $750k ARR churn and tripling team velocity. Chris excels at shipping new products under ambiguity—he led the Tables team from prototype to 1,000 active customers in six months—and maintains close partnerships with partners such as Slack, Notion, Meta, and Google. He’s equally comfortable in code as in coaching, having directed Zapier’s Path Into Engineering program and transitioned multiple candidates into engineering roles. Based in Chicago, he brings a pragmatic focus on ownership, maintenance, and quality at scale, plus an unexpected creative side as an electronic music singer/producer who enjoys integrations.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (19)
zapier10
sdk10
codemod10
nodejs10
cli10
libcst9
django8
data-formats8
python7
javascript6
javascript-tools3
integrations3
twitch2
chat2
pythonic1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cvanderkolk/ralphie-twitch-bot
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Custom Twitch chat bot for RalphieHardesty's twitch channel
Contributions:10 PRs, 28 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 9 months
botchattwitchchat-bottwitch-chat-bot
cvanderkolk/gigtrakr
Feb 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:17 pushes, 4 branches, 11 issues in 1 year 5 months
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