Christopher Winslett
Director Of Product Strategy & Growth
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Winslett is a product and startup leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling database-driven web products, currently directing product strategy and growth at Crunchy Data from Birmingham, AL. He blends hands-on engineering (early hire at Compose where he shipped DB services and contributed to MongoDB tooling) with growth-oriented product management, driving revenue and retention through metrics and funnel optimization. A serial founder and operator, he launched and grew API-first and consumer services (Cloverly, GetPrismm, BuildPlane) and has taken products from prototype to market traction quickly. His background includes guiding IBM teams to adopt data-driven product practices and teaching founders as a Techstars Energy EIR. Notably, he has contributed to the Mongoid/moped MongoDB Ruby driver, improving error handling and authentication robustness—evidence of a practitioner who still ships code. He combines strategic vision with practical execution across product, engineering, and go-to-market.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Management, BBA Management at University of MontevalloMBA Finance, MBA Finance at University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Github Skills (19)
postgresql10
python10
high-availability10
failover10
mongodb-database10
ruby10
database-design10
error-handling10
mongodb10
api-design9
testing9
etcd9
haproxy9
kubernetes7
zookeeper7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mongoid/moped
Aug 2012 - Nov 2012
A MongoDB driver for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:11 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed to the core functionality of the `moped` library, a MongoDB driver for Ruby. Their work focused on improving error handling and ensuring the driver's robustness within authenticated environments, resolving an issue with the `getlasterror` command. They implemented features like a URI parser for easier connection string management and added tests for explicit and default port configurations. Additionally, they worked on gracefully recovering from step downs, and providing better error messaging.
railsmongodb-drivermongodbruby
compose/mongoid-kms
Dec 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:28 commits in 9 months
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