Christos Pappas
Senior Engineering Manager at Slack
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolChristos Pappas is a seasoned software engineering leader with 17 years of experience building marketplaces and SaaS products, currently leading teams at Slack and Salesforce from Queensland, Australia. He progressed from hands-on roles and two co‑founded startups to senior technical and managerial positions at Hired and Slack, blending product-minded engineering with organizational scaling. Known for moving between Staff Engineer and Senior Engineering Manager roles, he pairs deep technical judgment with people leadership to deliver reliable, user-focused platforms. His background in founding startups and early web development at Virgin Australia gives him a strong bias for pragmatic, delivery-oriented engineering and cross-functional collaboration. Colleagues describe him as a builder who still enjoys diving into architecture and mentoring engineers through complex, production-grade systems.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Information Technology, Software Engineering at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
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Github Skills (50)
stream10
mongoid10
mongodb9
odm9
aerospike9
solace9
twitter-client8
mongodb-driver8
twitter7
twitter-api7
transition7
rails-app7
ruby-on-rails7
object-mapper7
nvidia6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
christospappas/nucleus
Jul 2015 - Oct 2019
Lightweight web components
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 4 years 4 months
webcomponentsweb-components
christospappas/streama
Feb 2011 - Jun 2020
Streama is a simple activity stream gem for use with the Mongoid ODM framework.
Contributions:84 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 9 years 5 months
mongoidstreamagemstreamodm
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