Christy Pope is a Director of Engineering in Seattle with 12 years of experience building and scaling mid-tier and back-end systems, specializing in RESTful API design and microservice architectures. She blends hands-on development in C# and Java with strong delivery instincts—balancing speed, quality, experimentation, and technical debt across multiple stakeholder groups. Christy has led both teams and individual contributors at companies like 98point6 and Getty Images, owning cross-functional coordination between product, UX, and engineering. She favors test-driven and behavior-driven practices, accessibility standards, and running professional development programs for large developer populations. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic systems thinker who enjoys the “tension” of trade-offs and driving durable product outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Illinois Wesleyan University
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