Chris Balz

Web3: https://offlinecrypto.us
Managed engineering of cloud-based desktop/app streaming product
Created patent portfolio: https://cutt.ly/U9vHo3Z
Conceived, funded, managed leading AWS EC2 test tool, aws-mock ( http://bit.ly/3wwK9yM )
Awarded Sponsorship of Carnegie Mellon U.’s M.S. in Software Eng. Final Project
Project detail: Summary: https://cutt.ly/39vGbKu ; Github: https://cutt.ly/s9vGTLH

Stanford Federal Credit Union is a financial institution with $3B of assets under management.

Highlights of my work there:
Owning the project, delivered alpha of 1st in world Google Pay checking account signup
Launched 1st Wise ( https://wise.com/ ) service in North Am., delivering large money savings for working people
Built Engineering in Test team

Defined, isolated & removed crucial bottlenecks in SDLC to scale
Unblocked team frontend automation, working around TestCafe issue & blazing fix path ( https://github.com/DevExpress/testcafe-hammerhead/issues/2178#issuecomment-1005000281 )
Delivered key upgrade to major customer-facing ad demo app on an ambitious timeline
Developed developers in both tech/arch and in teamwork

Led team to work with iTunes to complete requirements engineering, iterate, and deliver.
Initiated discussions to consider functional programming and state reduction for big gain: Clojure, React.
Led w/ TypeScript (2016) to gain Enterprise-class reliability and maintainability.
Interviewed and recommended engineers who proved to be successful on team.
Attended Apple University

Served as tech lead, managing frontend and middleware development team
Built features for extensive single-page web app for fleets of robots
Working with HR, graduated engineers from PIP to successful, productive contributors
Advanced Docker work to support many customer-specific customizations
2D WebGL with extensive CPU/GPU/int

Worked with architect to lead engineering of Web app player design
Mentored jr. engineer

Led technology migration to Web 2.0 platform.
Worked with HR requirements to deliver groundbreaking new stock option mgmt product.
Created first professional JS framework suited for the consumer Web, Et1 ( https://archive.is/sfh9O ):
E*Trade website able to handle peak load w/o going "white screen".
Using ET1, revamped the core E*Trade offering, Equity Edge Online app ( https://bit.ly/404N0fW )

Built core of the rich-text blog editor and worked on core JS APIs for Vox (2006-2010) ( https://christopherbalz.typepad.com/futureproof_extended_now/2010/09/goodbye-vox-see-you-again-someday.html )
Contributed to winning Vox's Best Web 2.0 Innovation Award from Shiny Media: https://bit.ly/3XD5vXb

Used user experience vision to create the most popular module on the Livestand app
Livestand was ranked by Apple as a Top Five News App for 2011 (work sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhygDqm27Vw&feature=youtu.be )
Developed instrumentation libraries for click and attention-monitoring, w/ PII compliance
Met challenging $14M Olympics app deadline, created by reorg due to new CEO

Contributed to core eBay JavaScript framework, “ej2”
Delivered website features

Developed software in “G" from LabView ( https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/labview.html )
Contributed to build the NASA’s ST-7 ( https://science.nasa.gov/missions/st-7/ ), successfully launched and completed.

Shipped innovative customer survey product based on own custom JavaScript framework

State Software ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#History ) was a company founded by the popularizer of JSON, Doug Crockford, although a team I had already been on had been using json professionally.

Highlights:
Part of effort that delivered a great JavaScript framework with backend to Amazon

Delivered features for Enterprise-class Web-based groupware, with Ajax & JSON