Chris Watts
Technical Expert In Residence at Shuffl
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChris Watts is a versatile software engineer and founder with 11 years of hands-on experience building products that bridge cloud software and physical devices, from Amazon drone delivery systems to IoT-driven mental-health spaces. As Founder/CTO of Shuffl and currently a Technical Expert in Residence at Madrona Venture Labs, he blends product-first engineering with startup grit—having automated operations, grown customer-funded traction, and worn every hat from sales to HR. His background spans scalable backend systems, realtime platforms, and blockchain integrations, with notable work on AWS-heavy architectures, MQTT/IoT stacks, and blockchain event infrastructures. Colleagues praise his rapid delivery and product sensibility; outside of work he’s an avid sailor and pianist who codes with his dog nearby—proof that pragmatic engineering and curiosity drive his best ideas.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Western Washington University
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
simplymeasured/ember-cli-deploy-sm-pack
Dec 2015 - Oct 2019
A pack of ember-cli-deploy plugins for deploying Simply Measured's Ember apps
Contributions:35 releases, 87 PRs, 201 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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seawatts/denali-jwt
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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