Christian Mccarrick
Director Engineering, RCS Business Messaging at Google
Alamo, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristian Mccarrick is a seasoned engineering leader with 25+ years building and scaling distributed SaaS, mobile, and data platforms, currently directing Engineering for RCS Business Messaging at Google after leading Instagram Messaging at Meta. He has repeatedly grown engineering organizations through prototype to hyper-growth and successful exits—contributing to six acquisitions including Auth0/Okta and multiple fintech and SaaS deals—while operating global teams (160+ across 20 countries). Equally at home in hands-on technical strategy and operational rigor, his expertise spans cloud distributed systems, large-scale data ingestion, ML/NLP, compliance-sensitive architectures, and M&A due diligence. A remote work advocate who literally runs a distributed lifestyle from a renovated 1961 Airstream, he prioritizes diverse leadership (75% of his engineering leadership are from underrepresented groups) and mentors emerging managers through Everwise and Plato. He also shares practical leadership lessons via the SimpleLeadership podcast, combining tactical engineering chops with a long view on culture and team design.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BA Biology English Pre-Med, BA Biology English Pre-Med at College of the Holy Cross
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (73)
docker-container10
docker-compose10
laravel10
database10
xdebug10
docker-image10
php10
edit-in-place9
composer9
docker9
php-container9
mysql9
eloquent9
laradock9
development-environment9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
redbonzai/laravel-repositories
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
The Repository Pattern for your Laravel project.
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
laravel-8laravel-frameworkphplaravel-adminlaravel-project
redbonzai/portainer
Nov 2021 - May 2024
Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
Contributions:21 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 6 months
containersk8skubernetesdocker
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