Chris Pruett Email & Phone Number

United States

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

Hillbrook is an independent school in Los Gatos, CA (JK-8) and San Jose, CA (9-12) with a vision to inspire students to achieve their dreams and reach beyond themselves to make a difference in the world.I'm an active board member, particularly passionate about the ambitious project to expand the school from a JK-8 to a JK-12. I have been working on this project since 2019 and in 2023 we officially launched the High School! I am currently spending most of my volunteering time as chair of the Capital Campaign, an essential element of making this vision a reality.2023-2024: Capital Campaign Chair, Exec Committee, Committee on Trustees2022-2023: Capital Campaign Chair, Exec Committee2021-2022: Exec Committee, DEIJA Committee, Secondary School Exploratory Committee2020-2021: Finance Committee, Advancement & Enrollment Committee

San Francisco, California, Us

We founded Jam with a vision to entertain curious minds. Jam — Just a Minute — puts short-form audio at the center. We're an early-stage, venture-backed startup.I'm incredibly proud of the product that we built. We're constantly iterating and learning to improve and simplify the experience for our listeners and creators.As a hands-on founder, I tapped into my passion for building and embraced my love of full-stack software engineering. We built a beautiful web and native application experience, where I got an opportunity to learn and work with modern technology stack and tools, including React, React Native, Typescript, Node, and Next.js.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I led a team of 500+ engineers in the SF Bay Area and New York responsible for the core products and platforms in LinkedIn’s Flagship application (iOS, Android, and web), including Feed, Messaging, Identity, and Search. I was also responsible for the infrastructure and tools that ensured the productivity of the 1000+ engineers contributing to Flagship.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I led the team responsible for Growth at LinkedIn, including the communications platforms (notifications and email), public pages and SEO, registration and onboarding, and the network building products including PYMK and invitations systems and products

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I led the Identity engineering team, which is responsible for a pillar at LinkedIn: the member profile. We build mobile and desktop products including:• Profile Viewing (which you're looking at right now)• Profile Editing (long-form and guided editing)• Who's Viewed Your Profile• Recommendations and Endorsements• Notifications• Content AnalyticsMy team is also responsible for the critical infrastructure and services that make it possible to serve profile data at scale to and for 450M+ members.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I led the Identity engineering team, which is responsible for a pillar at LinkedIn: the member profile. We built mobile and desktop products including:• Profile Viewing (which you're looking at right now)• Profile Editing (long-form and guided editing)• Who's Viewed Your Profile• Add to Profile program• Recommendations and EndorsementsMy team was also responsible for the critical infrastructure and services that make it possible to serve profile data at scale to and for 350M+ members

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

For my first year at LinkedIn, I led a team of entrepreneurial application engineers on a mission to revolutionize Higher Education. Together, we created a multi-year roadmap and built the first products at LinkedIn specifically targeted to students, prospective students, universities, and college recruiters.• Grew the team from 2 to 9 engineers, establishing a culture of trust, accountability, and craftsmanship• Partnered with Director of Product Management to make a multi-year product strategy actionable with concrete milestones and deliverables. Created plan for 2013, that included the launch of University Pages, and led the team through the first part of that year, before a successful transition to a new engineering manager• Led technical architectural decisions for new platform and products to support higher education, including distributed back-end systems for school and field of study data, and products including University Pages and Decision BoardsAbout a year in, I transitioned to lead the Profile team. In this role, I took over a very well established team responsible for the desktop profile products, including viewing and editing the flagship LinkedIn profile page, and the infrastructure and systems behind member profiles.

Technical architect and full-stack developer of a highly scalable parallel and pipelined video production and sharing platform (J2EE/C deployed on AWS, using EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront), consumer web (RoR), and mobile (iOS, Cocoa, Objective-C) products• Architected and led development of iOS application, achieving one million downloads with a 5 star average review• Designed and implemented a distributed, parallel encoding algorithm enabling pipelined movie production with a constant start-up time independent of movie length or complexity• Proficient in social APIs and OAuth 2.0: built and maintained deep integration with Facebook and YouTube supporting authentication, social graphs, photo import, and publication channels• Introduced and fostered development and operational processes, recruited and mentored engineers, and contributed to product, marketing, and community efforts, enabling the team to rapidly iterate through many successful, on-time product and platform releases

Technical architect and full-stack developer of innovative J2EE investment aggregation, analytic, and recommendation platform with consumer-facing website, acquired by E*Trade• Led due diligence process to get approval and sign-off on a multi-million dollar commercial contract with a major financial institution• Executed performance and scaling validation for investment performance calculations, eliminating major bottlenecks for a 10x increase in throughput, and a 30x improvement in the maximum processing time• Led implementation and evaluation of multivariate and A/B testing to improve registration and subscription conversion rates by 20%• Implemented 2nd generation market data platform with highly-efficient API to support core business functions including performance calculations and charting, allowing unattended daily import of market prices and corporate actions from US exchanges• Led team of engineers to improve market data quality and build tools to quickly resolve customer issues, resulting in 50% reduction of errors• Designed and implemented transaction management strategy across web application to eliminate recurring system crashes identified after launch

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Systems integration consultant to Fortune 500 financial and insurance companies, consistently exceeding expectations in roles of increasing responsibility from developer, to solutions architect, to delivery manager• Delivery manager of a client-facing implementation team, growing a team from four to 30+ engineers, completing high-quality, on-time customizations in a T&M project, to secure a multi-million dollar, multi-year fixed price contract• Led a team of four engineers to implement a prototype in a tight six-week project, securing a multi-million dollar implementation project• Made key contributions to ship an innovative J2EE originations platform, including:-- Enhanced performance of loan originations process by nearly 90%-- Designed and implemented a data locking strategy in a to eliminate complex software defects due to race conditions in a platform with a high degree of parallel processing-- Devised design pattern in webMethods (EAI tool) to allow junior developers to quickly and efficiently integrate new third-party systems into the originations platform• Recognized subject matter expert in workflow and Business Process Management (BPM)-- Interfaced with client business representatives to define business processes, and identify opportunities for automation-- Partnered with numerous client development teams to build custom enterprise BPM applications in J2EE, VB6/ASP, and .NET