Christopher Hindman
Product Engineer at LiveKit
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Hindman is a product-focused engineer and builder with nine years of experience designing reliable, production-grade systems and scaling quality practices across fast-growing SaaS teams. He helped found and scale the Quality organization at dbt Labs—embedding with nearly every engineering team, running global onboarding, and leading zero-downtime migrations between multitenant architectures. As a hands-on Senior Staff Quality Engineer and now Product Engineer at LiveKit, Christopher blends test automation, CI/CD ownership, and incident response to keep complex cloud products shipping safely. He co-founded ClearOffer, demonstrating an operator mindset that pairs product intuition with engineering execution. Active in open-source QA work, he added Cypress end-to-end coverage to dbt’s docs site to improve reliability and speed up test runs. Based in Santa Barbara with a BS in Computer Engineering from UCSB, he’s known for turning ambiguous reliability challenges into repeatable engineering practices.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (5)
e2e-testing10
cypress10
e2e-test10
testing9
javascript9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dbt-labs/docs.getdbt.com
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
The code behind docs.getdbt.com
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 24 commits, 16 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Christopher focused on improving the quality and reliability of the documentation website. They set up end-to-end tests using Cypress, covering the homepage and its various links. The user refactored the tests, added utility commands and ensured the tests utilized the correct base URL for assertions. The changes also prevented the recording of videos to speed up the test runs.
code-behind
Topherhindman/jaffle_shop
May 2022 - May 2024
A self-contained dbt project for testing purposes
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 29 branches in 2 years
dbttestingsqlself-contained
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