Christopher Bowal
Head Of Product & Co-Founder at Lumen5
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolChristopher Bowal is a product-focused founder and Head of Product with seven years of startup leadership experience based in Vancouver. He co-founded Lumen5, building a video creation platform that scales branded social content, and previously grew Sniply into the leading conversion-driven link shortener before its 2019 acquisition. His background spans founding talent-matching software at Needle and hands-on engineering rooted in an electrical/computer engineering degree from the University of Calgary. Christopher combines product strategy with operational execution—shipping automation-driven creative tools that bridge marketing and engineering. He has a track record of turning developer and design insights into monetizable SaaS experiences and retains a founder’s appetite for iterative, data-informed product bets. Notably, his career moves show a consistent focus on amplifying creative work through lightweight, scalable tooling.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Calgary Christian SchoolBachelor of Engineering Electrical Engineering (Minor in Computer Engineering), Bachelor of Engineering Electrical Engineering (Minor in Computer Engineering) at University of Calgary
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Github Skills (30)
code-compare9
viewer8
axios7
heap-memory6
google-play6
react6
flash6
nodejs6
api6
file-upload6
android6
browser6
gwt6
generator6
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Lumen5/pygetty
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
A simple wrapper for some of the Getty v3 REST API
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 1 push in 24 days
apigettypythonrest-clientpython3
Lumen5/video-preview
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 commit, 7 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
es6hiringjavascript
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