Christian Hartjes is a results-driven sales leader with 19 years of experience building revenue and go-to-market motion for education and mobility technology companies across the Northeast. Currently VP of Sales at Brisk Teaching after senior roles at Newsela, Binti, and NoRedInk, he combines competitive drive with a personable, customer-first approach to help schools and agencies adopt impactful SaaS solutions. He has a proven track record in demand generation and enterprise mobility—once leading an inside team that generated over $2M in net-new ARR—and brings hands-on technical fluency from years of web development and open-source contributions in PHP. Based in Somerville, MA, he pairs entrepreneurship with expertise in managed mobility, MDM/EMM, and EdTech product adoption, making him adept at translating complex technical needs into clear, scalable procurement and deployment strategies.
19 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Matignon High School
Bachelor of Arts Political Science, Bachelor of Arts Political Science at Boston College
Repo for OpenCFP project, a PHP-based conference talk submission system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:29 releases, 2 reviews, 1180 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Christian's contributions focused on implementing and integrating Sentry for user authentication and authorization within the OpenCFP project. This included adding a new schema, web assets, and several tools for creating and managing both groups and admin users via the command line. Further refinements to the project also included the creation of a new speaker and various supporting database migrations.
Contributions:39 commits, 1 push, 3 issues in 2 years 10 months
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