Christian Deonier is an engineering manager with 11+ years of software experience and over seven years leading teams across startups, research labs, and large tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has a deep, polyglot engineering background (C++, Perl, Ruby, Java, Android, iOS, Rails) and a track record of building payments and commerce platforms at scale while driving performance and cross-platform client reuse. At Airbnb he led multiple payments initiatives spanning mobile, web, and backend systems; more recently he’s been enabling company-wide testing and multi-language developer productivity at Databricks. An active practitioner of practical open source, he implemented core functionality for Airbnb’s widely used DeepLinkDispatch Android library, showing both hands-on delivery and system design chops. He also brings founder and angel-investor perspective from launching mobile/SaaS products and backing early startups, blending product intuition with engineering rigor.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Completion iOS Development, Completion iOS Development at CodePath
A simple, annotation-based library for making deep link handling better on Android
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:36 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Christian implemented the core functionality for the deep link dispatch library. They established the foundational structure, including the `DeepLinkDispatch` and `DeepLinkProcessor` classes. They handled parameter extraction from the deep link, and also included the generation of a `DeepLinkActivity` to handle the deep links. Additionally, the user refactored parts of the registry and also implemented query parameters.
Contributions:10 PRs, 66 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
consensusios-apptravelswiftios
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Christian Deonier - Engineering Manager at Databricks