Christopher Stephens
Engineering Manager at Databricks
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Stephens is an Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience leading full-stack teams and building production-grade web platforms across companies like Google and Databricks. He brings a hands-on background from early full-stack and backend roles at Reddit, Backcountry, and Zillow through to senior leadership, combining pragmatic engineering with people management. Comfortable across Python/Django, React and large-scale backend systems, he has a track record of shipping APIs, automated workflows, and developer-facing improvements (including contributions to the historical reddit codebase). Based in Amsterdam, he blends applied engineering craft with cross-functional leadership in cloud-native environments. Notably, he moved from individual contributor work—creating a crowdfunding platform at Reddit—into scaling teams and delivery at major cloud and search organizations. He focuses on turning complex product requirements into reliable, well-documented systems while mentoring engineers to grow into technical leaders.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Western Washington University
English
Github Skills (8)
api10
reddit10
python10
apidoc10
bash9
api-documentation9
system-administration8
javascript5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
reddit-archive/reddit
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
historical code from reddit.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 3 PRs, 22 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on back-end development tasks, as evidenced by the modifications to installation scripts and API documentation. They addressed dependencies, such as replacing `curl` with `wget`, and updated configuration settings, like adding an OAuth domain. The user also improved API documentation, enhancing its clarity for developers integrating with the Reddit API, alongside fixing multi-API functionality.
pythonprawjavascripthistoricalarchiver
chrisst/magic-modules
Sep 2018 - Jan 2025
Magic Modules: Automagically generate Google Cloud Platform support for OSS
Contributions:7 PRs, 744 pushes, 334 branches in 6 years 5 months
gcpappengineapp-engineossgoogle
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