Christian Finn
Product Strategy Director
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Finn is a product strategy director with 15 years of experience helping software companies align product development, go-to-market, and customer success to drive growth. He has led large product organizations and multi-hundred-million-dollar P&Ls at Microsoft and Oracle, scaled media and voice initiatives at Amazon, and now directs services portfolio strategy at FinancialForce. As a founder and consultant he advised startups on customer experience and AI in healthcare, pairing executive strategy with hands-on technical problem solving. His open-source contributions to prominent machine translation and evaluation projects like Moses and sacrebleu reveal a practical engineering aptitude for backend systems, cross-platform compatibility, and data-processing pipelines. Based in Issaquah, WA, he combines classical liberal arts thinking with deep product and technical fluency to translate complex technical constraints into user-centered, commercially viable roadmaps.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Liberal Arts Classics, Bachelor of Liberal Arts Classics at Harvard University
Github Skills (27)
machine-translation10
c-language10
python10
zlib10
file-handling10
nlp10
cprogramming-language10
scripting9
multiplatform9
enterprise-integration9
integrate9
cross-platform9
integrations9
perl9
application-integration9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mjpost/sacrebleu
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Reference BLEU implementation that auto-downloads test sets and reports a version string to facilitate cross-lab comparisons
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 9 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on fixing bugs and adding features to the `sacrebleu` project, a Python library for evaluating machine translation output. Their contributions included addressing a TypeError related to the HOME environment variable on Windows, implementing support for the `--encoding` argument, and fixing an issue related to calculating reference lengths. The user also integrated error handling by adding a try-except block around `SIGPIPE` calls. These changes suggest the user was responsible for maintaining the project's functionality, cross-platform compatibility, and improving its usability.
to-stringreportsstringbleucomparisons
moses-smt/mosesdecoder
May 2012 - May 2012
Moses, the machine translation system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Christian primarily addressed issues related to file handling and compression within the Moses machine translation system. They resolved problems arising from changes in the zlib library, specifically the implicit casting of file pointers. Additionally, the user updated scripts related to model training, incorporating changes and addressing merge conflicts. The user's work involved modifications to C++ files (util/file_piece.cc) and Perl scripts (scripts/training/mert-moses.pl), indicating a focus on core system functionalities and integration.
i18nmachine-translationtranslationlocalizationmoses
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