Chris DeLauder

I take ideas and transform them into stable robust platforms. I believe in simplicity, reliability, and efficiency. I favor production-ready over new and shiny.

I traverse the stack on a daily basis. My work has encompassed both front and back end development, as well as healthy dose of DevOps. I write pixel-perfect front end code, but my true passion is for the back end. Optimizing servers and increasing availablity is as exciting to me as writing a new feature.

When I'm not writing code I am most likely exploring San Francisco with my beagle Nibbler. I love to stay active and also enjoy a number of sports including curling, running, and surfing.

I am currently seeking new opportunities. Get in touch!

Shotput

Director of Engineering

San Francisco, CA

Dec. 2015 - Present

Built and led the team of Shotput engineers.
Scaled Shotput from tens of shipments per week to tens of thousands of shipments per week.
Created policies and workflow to ensure a well-tested reliable app, resulting in test coverage improving from 0% to 74%.
Built and maintained the DevOps infrastructure on AWS, set up monitoring software, and developed the front end build system.
Architected, designed, and implemented the Shotput Payment Account server to handle deposit account transactions. Features include separate audit-logging of every incoming request, 90% test coverage, and only one error in production during its lifetime.
Implemented multi-facility logistics, which involved rewriting the majority of both the front end and back end of the codebase, as nearly every model and action was affected.
Created “God Mode”, allowing Shotput admins to securely view the site as seen by our clients, and perform privileged actions on the behalf of those clients.
Improved batch order creation performance by 75% via the implementation of multithreading
Implemented and maintained a number of third-party API integrations including Easypost, Shopify, Shipstation, and SkuVault.

Stanza

Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Oct 2014 - Dec. 2015

Decreased average latency on our most heavily trafficked endpoint by 5000% by implementing redis caching.
Refactored every server endpoint to increase efficiency and introduce proper error-handling. Eliminated every point of silent failure.
Rewrote the front and back ends of our OAuth process to finally provide a unified auth process across our various apps.
Implemented a new build system to provide our front end engineers with a rapid-development environment.
Purged 50% of the code base by removing old, unused code and deprecating 50% of our models to reduce developer confusion and increase the speed of the app.

Chris DeLauder

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Shotput

Director of Engineering

San Francisco, CA

Dec. 2015 - Present

Stanza

Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Oct 2014 - Dec. 2015