Chrystal Ball
VP Of Engineering at Clear Legend
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolChrystal Ball is a pragmatic, hands-on VP of Engineering with over 8 years in senior leadership roles and two decades of software experience, currently leading engineering at Yahoo and advising scaling teams through Clear Legend. She blends deep technical expertise, product instinct, and conscious leadership to re-architect systems, drive data-driven outcomes, and accelerate delivery — for example shrinking music-to-live latency from a week to seconds at Pandora. Known for building engineering organizations from hiring through performance management, she excels at taming tech debt while aligning teams to business OKRs at billion-query scale. A mentor and quality advocate, she pairs operational rigor with creative curiosity—cataloging vinyl and spreadsheets in her off hours—bringing disciplined execution and an appreciation for craft to every product challenge.
8 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) International Relations, Bachelor of Arts (BA) International Relations at San Francisco State University
English, SpanishGithub contributions (2)
CHBALL/Eng-Lead-Guidance
May 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
AnjelOne/JellyFish
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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