Christopher McLean
Vice President of Engineering at Merge- Claim this Profile
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Vicente Silveira
Chris joined our team during a crisis and he amazed everyone with his ability to jump right in, keep his cool and produce great results in the midst of all the chaos. He then grew to be an amazing engineering manager, attracting the best talent from across the company to join his team while at the same time delivering on very challenging projects. He excels at leading complex projects that require cross -functional and cross-team collaboration. It was a privilege and a pleasure to work with him.
Aditya Bhambri
I had the opportunity to work with Chris when he took over the Domain Tech Lead role for Merchant risk domain. He ramped up really fast on the domain and delivered high quality products on schedule. Chris is an excellent teammate, great communicator and can bring consensus among various domain and x-vertical teams. He has in depth knowledge of the areas he owned and did not hesitate a bit to get his hands dirty and deep dive to fix bugs. It was a real pleasure working with him and delivering great product with a great team effort from both PD and QA perspective. I wish Chris well and would highly recommend for any challenging technical position
Vicente Silveira
Chris joined our team during a crisis and he amazed everyone with his ability to jump right in, keep his cool and produce great results in the midst of all the chaos. He then grew to be an amazing engineering manager, attracting the best talent from across the company to join his team while at the same time delivering on very challenging projects. He excels at leading complex projects that require cross -functional and cross-team collaboration. It was a privilege and a pleasure to work with him.
Aditya Bhambri
I had the opportunity to work with Chris when he took over the Domain Tech Lead role for Merchant risk domain. He ramped up really fast on the domain and delivered high quality products on schedule. Chris is an excellent teammate, great communicator and can bring consensus among various domain and x-vertical teams. He has in depth knowledge of the areas he owned and did not hesitate a bit to get his hands dirty and deep dive to fix bugs. It was a real pleasure working with him and delivering great product with a great team effort from both PD and QA perspective. I wish Chris well and would highly recommend for any challenging technical position
Vicente Silveira
Chris joined our team during a crisis and he amazed everyone with his ability to jump right in, keep his cool and produce great results in the midst of all the chaos. He then grew to be an amazing engineering manager, attracting the best talent from across the company to join his team while at the same time delivering on very challenging projects. He excels at leading complex projects that require cross -functional and cross-team collaboration. It was a privilege and a pleasure to work with him.
Aditya Bhambri
I had the opportunity to work with Chris when he took over the Domain Tech Lead role for Merchant risk domain. He ramped up really fast on the domain and delivered high quality products on schedule. Chris is an excellent teammate, great communicator and can bring consensus among various domain and x-vertical teams. He has in depth knowledge of the areas he owned and did not hesitate a bit to get his hands dirty and deep dive to fix bugs. It was a real pleasure working with him and delivering great product with a great team effort from both PD and QA perspective. I wish Chris well and would highly recommend for any challenging technical position
Vicente Silveira
Chris joined our team during a crisis and he amazed everyone with his ability to jump right in, keep his cool and produce great results in the midst of all the chaos. He then grew to be an amazing engineering manager, attracting the best talent from across the company to join his team while at the same time delivering on very challenging projects. He excels at leading complex projects that require cross -functional and cross-team collaboration. It was a privilege and a pleasure to work with him.
Aditya Bhambri
I had the opportunity to work with Chris when he took over the Domain Tech Lead role for Merchant risk domain. He ramped up really fast on the domain and delivered high quality products on schedule. Chris is an excellent teammate, great communicator and can bring consensus among various domain and x-vertical teams. He has in depth knowledge of the areas he owned and did not hesitate a bit to get his hands dirty and deep dive to fix bugs. It was a real pleasure working with him and delivering great product with a great team effort from both PD and QA perspective. I wish Chris well and would highly recommend for any challenging technical position
Experience
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Merge
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Vice President of Engineering
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Feb 2023 - Present
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Facebook
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Software Engineering Manager
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Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
Supported a ~50 person cross-functional org of Privacy teams across Software Engineering, Security Engineering, Investigations, and Operations. With mission of protecting user data from external actors attempting to scrape Facebook Supported a ~50 person cross-functional org of Privacy teams across Software Engineering, Security Engineering, Investigations, and Operations. With mission of protecting user data from external actors attempting to scrape Facebook
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Stripe
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Head of Security and Privacy Engineering
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Sep 2016 - Sep 2020
I built and led the Security and Privacy engineering org at Stripe, which was ~50 software engineers across six teams that made up the builder half of Security at Stripe. Our mission of build the products and infrastructure that establish and maintain trust with our customers. The teams focused across a broad set of areas from customer-facing product teams (saml, dashboard roles, login,... ), Anti Abuse, and Privacy & Security Infrastructure teams. I built and led the Security and Privacy engineering org at Stripe, which was ~50 software engineers across six teams that made up the builder half of Security at Stripe. Our mission of build the products and infrastructure that establish and maintain trust with our customers. The teams focused across a broad set of areas from customer-facing product teams (saml, dashboard roles, login,... ), Anti Abuse, and Privacy & Security Infrastructure teams.
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LinkedIn
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Engineering Manager, Security and Privacy
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Apr 2014 - Sep 2016
I lead an applications engineering team of ~30 engineers comprised of web developers, quality engineers, and managers, focused on Anti Scraping, Privacy Engineering, Member Login, and Internal Customer Service Tools.
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Senior Software Engineer
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Jun 2012 - Apr 2014
This role let me work on a diverse set of technologies and grow a lot as and Engineer. I spent about half my time developing plugins in C++ for Apache Traffic Server to provide web application security and/or validate, create, and modify different types of cookies and authentication tokens. The other half of my time was spent in the Java stack developing libraries to provide service to service authentication and access control.
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PayPal
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Member of Technical Staff 2
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Apr 2011 - Jun 2012
This role allowed me to spend my time working on the highest priority production issue. My primary focus on this team was working on high pressure, high priority bugs hidden deep in the legacy code base including a $750,000,000 obscure currency conversion issue. In Addition To working on high priority issues I was the teams Technical Lead and a Member of the Extended Architecture Team.
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Staff Software Engineer
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May 2007 - Apr 2011
I spent my first years at Paypal on the Merchant team, a rapidly growing team which focused on growing Paypal's presence off eBay. I developed features in C++ varying from consumer web checkout flows, merchant integration tools, and externally facing Platform API's. Including a Button factory “buy now” which included a web flow for small business owners and an API for medium to large merchants. I was development lead on all but one of my projects which meant I was responsible for the majority… Show more I spent my first years at Paypal on the Merchant team, a rapidly growing team which focused on growing Paypal's presence off eBay. I developed features in C++ varying from consumer web checkout flows, merchant integration tools, and externally facing Platform API's. Including a Button factory “buy now” which included a web flow for small business owners and an API for medium to large merchants. I was development lead on all but one of my projects which meant I was responsible for the majority of the design as well as significant portion of development.
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Arizona State University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Associate/Teaching Associate
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Aug 2005 - May 2007
Research Associate • Muri Project – researching trust in distributed collaborative environments • Developed an AS3 calculus to Java compiler for Linux environments. • Mentored two senior design project groups in developing C based engine control unit. • Developed a secure document repository PHP/C++ Teaching Associate CSE 100 intro to C++ • Assisted in revising and developing course materials. • Taught several lab sections per semester for an introductory C++ course Research Associate • Muri Project – researching trust in distributed collaborative environments • Developed an AS3 calculus to Java compiler for Linux environments. • Mentored two senior design project groups in developing C based engine control unit. • Developed a secure document repository PHP/C++ Teaching Associate CSE 100 intro to C++ • Assisted in revising and developing course materials. • Taught several lab sections per semester for an introductory C++ course
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General Motors
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United States
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Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Design Engineer - Embedded systems
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Jun 2005 - Aug 2005
•Developed software and software test tools for the body control module •Developed software and software test tools for the body control module
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York International
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Troy, MI
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Application Engineer
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May 2004 - Jun 2005
• Project management for multimillion dollar projects • Assisting in project design • Project management for multimillion dollar projects • Assisting in project design
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Education
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2002 - 2004
University of Michigan
BSE, Computer Engineering -
Arizona State University
Master's degree - MCS - Information Assurance, Computer Science
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