Chris Hawley
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Meghan Jewitt
Chris is an empathetic, caring, and process oriented engineering leader. One of his many superpowers is that he builds engaged and thriving teams. Chris took our engineering, product, design and data teams over, and while we had a wonderful group of teammates at the time, things weren't working at the level we needed. He quickly got the buy of the team and put best practice processes in place to ensure that we were delivering on time with well defined product. During his tenure, our tech attrition team went to zero (incredibly impressive in the Bay Area), and the team delivered some of its best work. Hoping to have the opportunity to work with Chris again.
Wayne Sheng
I worked directly under Chris’ supervision at Popsugar for four years. For me, Chris was a great manager. For the company, he was a very effective senior executive. For the whole engineer branch, he was an intelligent problem solver. Chris built his leadership by forming consensus among different parties. He is a great listener and has an amazing ability to communicate with people from different backgrounds. He can take in different opinions and present them in a way to intrigue constructive discussions. He can clearly translate business needs into engineering tasks and propose smart engineering solutions for various business problems. As a VP of Engineering at Popsugar, Chris was responsible for steering the technology visions of the company and managing the engineer team to execute those visions. His knowledge in the electronic publishing industry is very advanced and his experience in web publishing, data tracking, online advertisements, and ecommerce is very rich. He oversaw a wide variety of engineering projects at Popsugar from dev ops to frontend rendering to backend services to big data analytics to email marketing to e-commerce. Whenever we needed a fresh eye on a difficult bug or a certain inspiration on engineering architecture design, he was always our go-to guy. As my manager, Chris always tried his best to make me succeed in all my tasks. In the last four years, I never met a single blocker that couldn’t be removed by Chris. He is a convincing motivator and has provided great support, both technical and non technical, for me. In summary, if you have too many egos on your engineering team or not enough talents, Chris can build a great engineering team for you. If you need a senior executive leading the technology roadmap of your organization, Chris can help you reach the business milestones. If you need a brilliant engineering lead who has great technical acumen as well as problem solving ability, Chris has the knowledge, experience, and intelligence to keep your company’s engine running.
Meghan Jewitt
Chris is an empathetic, caring, and process oriented engineering leader. One of his many superpowers is that he builds engaged and thriving teams. Chris took our engineering, product, design and data teams over, and while we had a wonderful group of teammates at the time, things weren't working at the level we needed. He quickly got the buy of the team and put best practice processes in place to ensure that we were delivering on time with well defined product. During his tenure, our tech attrition team went to zero (incredibly impressive in the Bay Area), and the team delivered some of its best work. Hoping to have the opportunity to work with Chris again.
Wayne Sheng
I worked directly under Chris’ supervision at Popsugar for four years. For me, Chris was a great manager. For the company, he was a very effective senior executive. For the whole engineer branch, he was an intelligent problem solver. Chris built his leadership by forming consensus among different parties. He is a great listener and has an amazing ability to communicate with people from different backgrounds. He can take in different opinions and present them in a way to intrigue constructive discussions. He can clearly translate business needs into engineering tasks and propose smart engineering solutions for various business problems. As a VP of Engineering at Popsugar, Chris was responsible for steering the technology visions of the company and managing the engineer team to execute those visions. His knowledge in the electronic publishing industry is very advanced and his experience in web publishing, data tracking, online advertisements, and ecommerce is very rich. He oversaw a wide variety of engineering projects at Popsugar from dev ops to frontend rendering to backend services to big data analytics to email marketing to e-commerce. Whenever we needed a fresh eye on a difficult bug or a certain inspiration on engineering architecture design, he was always our go-to guy. As my manager, Chris always tried his best to make me succeed in all my tasks. In the last four years, I never met a single blocker that couldn’t be removed by Chris. He is a convincing motivator and has provided great support, both technical and non technical, for me. In summary, if you have too many egos on your engineering team or not enough talents, Chris can build a great engineering team for you. If you need a senior executive leading the technology roadmap of your organization, Chris can help you reach the business milestones. If you need a brilliant engineering lead who has great technical acumen as well as problem solving ability, Chris has the knowledge, experience, and intelligence to keep your company’s engine running.
Meghan Jewitt
Chris is an empathetic, caring, and process oriented engineering leader. One of his many superpowers is that he builds engaged and thriving teams. Chris took our engineering, product, design and data teams over, and while we had a wonderful group of teammates at the time, things weren't working at the level we needed. He quickly got the buy of the team and put best practice processes in place to ensure that we were delivering on time with well defined product. During his tenure, our tech attrition team went to zero (incredibly impressive in the Bay Area), and the team delivered some of its best work. Hoping to have the opportunity to work with Chris again.
Wayne Sheng
I worked directly under Chris’ supervision at Popsugar for four years. For me, Chris was a great manager. For the company, he was a very effective senior executive. For the whole engineer branch, he was an intelligent problem solver. Chris built his leadership by forming consensus among different parties. He is a great listener and has an amazing ability to communicate with people from different backgrounds. He can take in different opinions and present them in a way to intrigue constructive discussions. He can clearly translate business needs into engineering tasks and propose smart engineering solutions for various business problems. As a VP of Engineering at Popsugar, Chris was responsible for steering the technology visions of the company and managing the engineer team to execute those visions. His knowledge in the electronic publishing industry is very advanced and his experience in web publishing, data tracking, online advertisements, and ecommerce is very rich. He oversaw a wide variety of engineering projects at Popsugar from dev ops to frontend rendering to backend services to big data analytics to email marketing to e-commerce. Whenever we needed a fresh eye on a difficult bug or a certain inspiration on engineering architecture design, he was always our go-to guy. As my manager, Chris always tried his best to make me succeed in all my tasks. In the last four years, I never met a single blocker that couldn’t be removed by Chris. He is a convincing motivator and has provided great support, both technical and non technical, for me. In summary, if you have too many egos on your engineering team or not enough talents, Chris can build a great engineering team for you. If you need a senior executive leading the technology roadmap of your organization, Chris can help you reach the business milestones. If you need a brilliant engineering lead who has great technical acumen as well as problem solving ability, Chris has the knowledge, experience, and intelligence to keep your company’s engine running.
Meghan Jewitt
Chris is an empathetic, caring, and process oriented engineering leader. One of his many superpowers is that he builds engaged and thriving teams. Chris took our engineering, product, design and data teams over, and while we had a wonderful group of teammates at the time, things weren't working at the level we needed. He quickly got the buy of the team and put best practice processes in place to ensure that we were delivering on time with well defined product. During his tenure, our tech attrition team went to zero (incredibly impressive in the Bay Area), and the team delivered some of its best work. Hoping to have the opportunity to work with Chris again.
Wayne Sheng
I worked directly under Chris’ supervision at Popsugar for four years. For me, Chris was a great manager. For the company, he was a very effective senior executive. For the whole engineer branch, he was an intelligent problem solver. Chris built his leadership by forming consensus among different parties. He is a great listener and has an amazing ability to communicate with people from different backgrounds. He can take in different opinions and present them in a way to intrigue constructive discussions. He can clearly translate business needs into engineering tasks and propose smart engineering solutions for various business problems. As a VP of Engineering at Popsugar, Chris was responsible for steering the technology visions of the company and managing the engineer team to execute those visions. His knowledge in the electronic publishing industry is very advanced and his experience in web publishing, data tracking, online advertisements, and ecommerce is very rich. He oversaw a wide variety of engineering projects at Popsugar from dev ops to frontend rendering to backend services to big data analytics to email marketing to e-commerce. Whenever we needed a fresh eye on a difficult bug or a certain inspiration on engineering architecture design, he was always our go-to guy. As my manager, Chris always tried his best to make me succeed in all my tasks. In the last four years, I never met a single blocker that couldn’t be removed by Chris. He is a convincing motivator and has provided great support, both technical and non technical, for me. In summary, if you have too many egos on your engineering team or not enough talents, Chris can build a great engineering team for you. If you need a senior executive leading the technology roadmap of your organization, Chris can help you reach the business milestones. If you need a brilliant engineering lead who has great technical acumen as well as problem solving ability, Chris has the knowledge, experience, and intelligence to keep your company’s engine running.
Experience
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Cofertility
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United States
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Health and Human Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Engineering
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Aug 2023 - Present
Building an ecosystem to make family-building more accessible, transparent, and human-centered. Building an ecosystem to make family-building more accessible, transparent, and human-centered.
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Advisor
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Apr 2020 - Present
Advising early stage companies to fill technical gaps in executive teams. Industries include education, fintech, e-commerce, and media. Advising early stage companies to fill technical gaps in executive teams. Industries include education, fintech, e-commerce, and media.
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Impress
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Spain
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Medical Practices
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400 - 500 Employee
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VP of Engineering
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Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Responsible for supporting the Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and IT disciplines at Uniform Teeth representing those functions on the Leadership Team. Mission: Use technology to make orthodontic care more delightful and attainable. - Optimizing customer acquisition channels - Product & engineering strategy for our industry-leading tools: 3D treatment planning software, electronic health record, patient mobile app - Ensuring HIPAA-compliance throughout our systems & processes - Fundraising & acquisition Acquired by Impress in October, 2022 Show less
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POPSUGAR
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United States
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Media Production
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100 - 200 Employee
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VP, Engineering
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Oct 2018 - Apr 2020
Member of executive team responsible for leading technical strategy at POPSUGAR by continuing to expand its audience of 300M monthly readers and unlocking new opportunities for technology and innovation to enrich and empower our readers' lives.- Facilitating transparent and collaborative culture: the foundation for all work done by the engineering team- Translating business goals into concrete engineering tasks and supporting expedient execution- Guiding technical architecture for POPSUGAR's systems- Developed clear job descriptions and career paths for engineering roles- Balancing department budget to maintain high team morale and low turnover while contributing to company profitabilityAcquired by Group Nine Media in November, 2019 Show less
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Director, Engineering
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Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Team lead for POPSUGAR Voices, Trendrank, Must Have, Email, and special projects- Launched new infrastructure for Trendrank to support all-time historical reporting while also making the platform faster and cheaper to run- Participated in GDPR compliance task force
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Senior Manager, Engineering and Technical Lead
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Jun 2015 - Mar 2018
Team lead for Ads, POPSUGAR Must Have, Voices, Distributed Platforms- Led 4-person tiger team to bring POPSUGAR Must Have technical infrastructure back in-house with expanded feature set (multiple subscription support, multi-address carts, a-la-carte purchasing)- Launched SMS-based purchasing option (POPSUGAR Must Have It)- Supported launch and provided technical oversight for POPSUGAR Voices, our fully-integrated freelance platform- Spearheaded various user-engagement A/B tests to improve core metrics (pages per visit, shares per visit)- Implemented several site performance and ad optimizations Show less
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Manager, Engineering and Technical Lead
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Apr 2013 - Jun 2015
Engineering Lead for POPSUGAR Must Have, Circle of Moms, Distributed Content- Launched POPSUGAR Forums- Launched POPSUGAR email newsletters on Circle of Moms email platform- Relaunched POPSUGAR Must Have on 3rd party platform (Netsuite)
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Software Engineer
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Feb 2012 - Apr 2013
Core contributor to Circle of Moms and POPSUGAR codebases- United 10M+ Circle of Moms, POPSUGAR, and Shopstyle users via single sign-on- More than doubled user reengagement metrics by integrating Circle of Moms with Facebook's notification API- Applied successful SEO strategies learned on Circle of Moms to POPSUGAR
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Circle of Moms
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Oct 2011 - Feb 2012
Member of 6-person engineering team focused on SEO, user growth, and blogger programs. I learned a ton about A/B testing, AWS, and Redis. Acquired by POPSUGAR in February, 2012. Member of 6-person engineering team focused on SEO, user growth, and blogger programs. I learned a ton about A/B testing, AWS, and Redis. Acquired by POPSUGAR in February, 2012.
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MerchantCircle
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Jun 2010 - Oct 2011
I started out automating email workflows to support the small but mighty Community team and implementing a bayesian filter to remove spam from the network. I quickly became a core contributor to the Python web stack (CherryPy, PostgresSQL, memcached) where I built paid products, user-engagement features, and was eventually added to the pager rotation to handle off-hours production outages. Acquired by Reply! Inc. in June, 2011 I started out automating email workflows to support the small but mighty Community team and implementing a bayesian filter to remove spam from the network. I quickly became a core contributor to the Python web stack (CherryPy, PostgresSQL, memcached) where I built paid products, user-engagement features, and was eventually added to the pager rotation to handle off-hours production outages. Acquired by Reply! Inc. in June, 2011
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Education
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2007 - 2010
Trinity College-Hartford
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science -
2003 - 2006
Stevenson School
High School
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