Chris Bell

Chris Bell

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Co-Founder + CTO
New York, United States

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  • Knock
    Co-Founder + CTO
    Knock
    Jan 2021 - Current (5 years 9 months)
  • Fable
    Advisor
    Fable
    Oct 2020 - Oct 2022 (2 years 1 month)
  • T
    Technical Consultant
    Jun 2020 - Jan 2021 (8 months)
    I work with startups and larger organizations to bring my technical leadership and experience to their teams. My projects are mostly Elixir-centric, but I'm available for full-stack application development using React and React Native as well.

    I love working at the intersection of technology, product, and business to help teams apply customer-centric, pragmatic solutions to build products that people want. I'm as happy working alongside design and product as I am engineers.

    Skills and expertise:

    ● 10+ years of full-stack software engineering. I mostly work with Elixir, NodeJS, Ruby, React, React Native.
    ● 5 years of Elixir experience, building out large scale production applications across different in
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    Technology Advisor
    Hark Wellness
    Aug 2020 - Sep 2021 (1 year 2 months)
  • Dare
    Developer
    Dare
    May 2011 - Jun 2012 (1 year 2 months)
  • Frameio
    Director Of Engineering
    Frameio
    Feb 2017 - May 2019 (2 years 4 months)
    During my time at Frame.io, I helped grow and manage the engineering team and architectural decisions through Series A - C. During this time I led teams responsible for the web product, the backend API and video infrastructure, and our growth team. Some key highlights:

    ● Successfully migrated our API and data layer from Ruby-on-Rails to Elixir / Phoenix running on ECS, cutting our application serving costs by 85%
    ● Modernized the front-end architecture moving from a custom coffeescript application to a React, Redux powered front-end
    ● Ran our V4 pricing migration efforts
    ● Helped spin up a platform team to drive external applic
  • Muru Inc
    Chief Technology Officer
    Muru Inc
    May 2019 - Jun 2020 (1 year 2 months)
    CTO at Muru, working to build products to help paramedics get access to life saving information. Leading a small team of engineers and subject matter experts and directing day-to-day product decisions to help bring our product to market and into EMS providers hands.

    On the technology side, we use Kotlin and Swift to build our offline first, native mobile apps that have our natural language search implementation. On the web side, we use GraphQL powered by Elixir / Phoenix and React JS to build out a full content management system. All of this is deployed in Google Cloud.
  • ElixirTalk
    Podcast Cohost
    ElixirTalk
    Oct 2017 - Oct 2021 (4 years 1 month)
    Founder and co-host of the popular ElixirTalk podcast, taking questions from around the community about Elixir application design and the state of the ecosystem.
  • Empire City Elixir Conference
    Conference Organizer
    Empire City Elixir Conference
    Jan 2016 - Feb 2024 (8 years 2 months)
    EMPEX, the Empire City Elixir Conference, is a sophisticated conference series for the Elixir programming language and ecosystem held in New York City and Los Angeles, California. Our goal is to bring a sense of aesthetic and fun to the growing Elixir community.

    I've helped organize EMPEX since it's inception.
  • Made by Many
    Technical Director
    Made by Many
    Oct 2013 - Jan 2017 (3 years 4 months)
    As Technical Director and first employee of the New York office of Made by Many I was responsible for helping establish and produce projects for companies such as Hello Alfred, Justworks, NFL, Nike, Cava Grill and NJOY.

    ● Hired and ran a team of 4 full-stack Product Engineers
    ● Lead the technical direction and product build for Cava Grill's online ordering platform across web, iOS and Android, successfully handing over the project to their team to run
    ● Spearheaded our use of Elixir and React Native for application development
  • Made by Many
    Full Stack Engineer
    Made by Many
    Jun 2012 - Oct 2013 (1 year 5 months)
    ● Worked on full-stack Ruby-on-Rails applications for clients such as the BBC, ITV, Skype, and VRT.
    ● Co-founded and ran a successful meetup, Front-end London as well as a one day mini-conference Epic FEL.
    ● Maintained and rewrote our open source project, Sir Trevor leading it to be a trending project on Github and see use in various other companies.
  • W
    Developer
    Weapon
    Jun 2010 - Jun 2011 (1 year 1 month)
    - Developing cutting edge web builds for large brands.
    - Helping concept creative ideas
    - Technical scoping and documentation
    - Interviewing freelancers and running small projects.
  • C
    Developer
    Chris Bell Ltd Freelance
    Jul 2008 - Apr 2011 (2 years 10 months)
    - Extensive freelance portfolio
    - Numerous long standing clients and repeat work
    - Helping smaller brands develop their online presence
  • W
    Junior Developer
    Weapon
    Jun 2008 - Sep 2009 (1 year 4 months)
    - Full web builds for large and small clients.
    - DMA Silver award for work on a smart banner
    - NMA website of the week for Natural Confectionery Co.
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  • University of Staffordshire
    BSc, Computer Science
    University of Staffordshire
    Jan 2006 - Dec 2010 (5 years)
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