Chris Bala
Software Engineer at Stripe
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Bala is a software engineer with over a decade of experience, currently powering frontend infrastructure on Stripe’s Payments Web team. Based in California, he combines startup leadership with enterprise-scale delivery, having co-founded PolyRents as CTO where he built the product from concept through testing and GTM. His 2016–2021 tenure at Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing team and his Stripe role reflect a track record of delivering reliable, customer-focused software across diverse domains. With a background in Business Administration and hands-on engineering, he excels at translating requirements into practical, auditable solutions and aligning cross-functional stakeholders. At PolyRents, he designed a requirement system to improve team communication and ensure product-market fit, highlighting his ability to blend process and product vision. He avoids crypto-related inquiries, signaling a preference for focused, business-aligned engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoStudy abroad, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Study abroad, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at 早稲田大学 / Waseda University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (200)
testing10
postgres10
drag10
sortable10
schema10
jsx10
type-inference10
mongo10
html10
browser-detection10
json10
schema-validation10
shim10
nodejs10
svelte10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chrbala/single-schema
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:113 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
chrbala/parse-redux
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:63 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
javascriptparse-sdksdkreduxparse
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