Chris D. Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Gradle is a top 20 open source project downloaded over 60 million times per month, the most widely used build system for Java, and the default build system for Google Android. Tens of thousands of developers at the fastest moving Fortune 500 and tech companies in the world including Google, Netflix, Microsoft, Salesforce, and major open source projects.

San Francisco, CA, US

Seattle, Washington, US

Founded education nonprofit that connects students & early career professionals with people up the ladder in their target career path. Participants donate money to charity, in exchange they receive career consulting from extremely accomplished people in their field. Proceeds go to a charity decided upon by the consulting professional, with popular.

Seattle, WA, US

Founded SaaS platform to automatically send hand personalized mail directly to customers & prospects with a click from your CRM, just like email automation.I led a remote decentralized team of 5 people to create a working beta platform, developing the product through multiple pivots and iterations via feedback from discussions with companies like Avalara.

Owned the customer lifecycle for all customers, leading Distelli sales and customer success through acquisition by Puppet Labs. Distelli was a Series A software deployment automation startup backed by a16z and founded by the 3rd engineer at AWS. Distelli visualizes & automates CI/CD from the command line through production-- cloud & language agnostic, with.

Seattle, WA, US

Led the launch and growth of the Surfing section of Stohke's social media platform. Stohke is a niche social network for action sports. Users can create profiles to share personal action sports content (think GoPro videos), and brands can advertise to a highly targeted audience of action sports consumers (for instance tagging gear in images). I worked on.

Palo Alto, California, US

Started tech career in the trenches in the heart of Silicon Valley. Worked with the VP of Sales (first salesperson from Salesforce.com) as one of the founding hires of the sales team to test and develop full cycle sales strategy. AeroFS was in the top 25% of startups out of Y-Combinator (as measured by YC's success metrics), the CEO was a partner at YC. I.

Elysées Langues is a small private English language immersion school at the Champs-Elysées in Paris. It teaches a completely oral curriculum for French business executives (zero written materials or lesson plans allowed per the school's method). I taught an average of 4 two-hour lessons per day to small groups of 2-5 business executives, with a dynamic.