Christopher L
Founder & CEO at BitPatrol (YC X25)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher L is a founder and software engineer with nine years of experience building production systems across fintech and infrastructure, most recently founding BitPatrol, an AI-driven platform for proactive vulnerability detection. He spent five years at Stripe working on Merchant Intelligence and Billing, and earlier built diagnostic and automation tooling at Tesla and productivity systems at Lyft. Christopher combines hands-on backend and full-stack skills—illustrated by his open-source SneakerBot project and accompanying web app—with a knack for shipping pragmatic, multithreaded solutions. His startup roots go back to founding a profitable retail-arbitrage business that generated over $40k in revenue and honed his product and customer-ops instincts. Based in New York and educated at Columbia, he now blends YC-backed founder experience with deep engineering discipline to turn technical risk into scalable products. An interesting detail: he leverages both applied research and scrappy engineering (from automation at Tesla to multithreaded bots) to move quickly from prototype to production.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Columbia UniversityMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
python, Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
git-repository10
threaded10
selenium-ide10
web-development10
selenium10
hyper-threading10
python10
github-repos10
multithreading10
thread10
http-request10
flask-ask9
flask9
css7
html7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
theriley106/SneakerBotTutorials
Jan 2017 - Nov 2018
Open Source SneakerBot created as a supplement to my "Creating a Sneaker Bot in Python" Youtube Series
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:162 commits, 6 PRs, 150 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed significantly to building a sneaker bot, primarily focusing on the backend logic and potentially the user interface. Their work involved creating URL generation functions, stock checking mechanisms, and multithreaded operations for Adidas. The user also created a web app. This suggests a focus on both the server-side aspects of the bot and potentially the frontend interface for user interaction and information display.
pythonsneakeryoutube-seriessupplementsneakerbot
theriley106/theriley106.github.io
Aug 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:991 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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