Chris Sackes
Engineering Manager at Chime
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Sackes is a software engineering leader in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently Engineering Manager at Chime, where he guides cross-functional teams to deliver scalable fintech experiences. Over 10 years, he progressed from Software Engineer at Lightstep (acquired by ServiceNow) to Software Engineer and Manager at ServiceNow, and now leads at Chime starting in 2025. He prioritizes delightful user experiences and conducts deep investigations to ensure outcomes are impactful, aligning product, design, and engineering. He brings a rare blend of design sensibility from early work as a Stanford Graphic Designer to building polished, user-centric software. His background spans large enterprises and startups, with a Stanford BA and studies at Peking University, plus a track record of collaborating across organizations to deliver high-quality software. Based in San Francisco, he thrives on mentoring teams, shipping reliable systems, and turning complex requirements into practical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Peking UniversityHigh School, High School at The High School for Math Science and EngineeringBachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Stanford University
Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (6)
datasource8
lightstep7
graphite4
grafana4
monitoring4
prometheus3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lightstep/lightstep-metrics-datasource
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Lightstep's Grafana Datasource for Metrics
Contributions:4 releases, 13 reviews, 29 commits in 1 month
grafanaprometheusgrafana-datasourcedatasourcemetrics
cdsackes/cdsackes.github.io
Feb 2021 - Dec 2024
website repo v2
Contributions:9 PRs, 41 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 10 months
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