Christian Hammond
Chief Executive Officer at Beanbag, Inc.
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarChristian Hammond is an experienced software leader and CEO with 24 years building developer-focused products from Palo Alto. As President/CEO of Beanbag, Inc. and co-creator of the widely used open-source Review Board, he blends hands-on backend engineering with company leadership. His contributions to Review Board, rbtools, and Django-Pipeline show a knack for improving developer workflows—reliable CLI tools, robust API/token support, and resilient static-asset handling. Comfortable diving into database and deployment edge cases, he’s pragmatic about shipping maintainable solutions that scale for teams and enterprises. Beyond leadership, he remains a regular open-source contributor who quietly prioritizes developer experience and operational robustness.
24 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
python10
django10
css10
packaging10
package10
command-line-tool10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
apidoc9
configuration-management9
api9
rest-api9
web-development9
database-management9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
reviewboard/rbtools
Aug 2009 - Nov 2022
Command line tools for working with Review Board
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 710 commits, 5 PRs in 13 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Christian's contributions center around enhancing and modifying the core functionality of the Review Board command line tools (rbtools). Their work focuses on improving user experience by implementing short flags for land command options and providing configuration defaults. They also improved codebase maintainability by updating the wording and metadata of the options and creating a custom help text formatter.
review-boardcommand-line-toolsboardreview
reviewboard/reviewboard
Sep 2006 - Jan 2023
An extensible and friendly code review tool for projects and companies of all sizes.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 6614 commits, 2261 pushes in 16 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christian's contributions focused on enhancing the codebase for the rb-site command-line tool. They improved the database interaction by addressing connection errors and the underlying code, as well as performed a complete overhaul of the file-based static media generation by utilizing the Django `static` files finder. They also worked on enhancing the API functionality by providing additional functionalities to the API tokens and incorporating the support for file and diff content.
pythonjavascriptreviewdeveloper-toolsextensible
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