Hi! I'm Chris, a software engineer, author, and investor.
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I run Materialized View Capital . It's a small fund that invests in early stage infrastructure and developer tool companies. I used to invest personally. You can find those companies on my AngelList profile.
I'm into open source. My current project is SlateDB, an embedded key-value store built on object storage. I previously wrote Apache Samza and I'm on Apache Airflow's PMC. You can follow me on Github .
I've worked at WePay, LinkedIn, and PayPal. LinkedIn has my complete work history.
My first book is out! The Missing README is a guide for new software engineers. You can get it on Amazon .
Some papers and patents that I've been included in are on Google Scholar .
I like reading, too. Check out my book list on Goodreads . If shorter reads are more your thing, I share links on Pocket .