Chris Pierce
Engineering leader who builds resilient teams through hypergrowth, acquisitions, and organizational change.
Experience
1Password
Engineering Manager, Platform Advancement
- Grew 3 individual contributors into Engineering Manager roles, supporting their transition into leadership.
- Scaled the engineering org by 40% during hypergrowth, hiring peers and direct reports across multiple squads.
- Redesigned team structure and processes during a company-wide reorg, improving delivery velocity by over 30%.
- Oversee 6 platform client applications spanning macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and browser extensions.
15five
Director of Engineering
- Stabilized and scaled teams through an organizational acquisition, coaching existing engineers and hiring new talent.
- Mentored an IC into their first management role, resulting in a successful new team under their leadership.
- Drove cross-functional alignment with Product, consistently delivering against company-wide OKRs across multiple squads.
Shogun
Senior Engineering Manager, Site Reliability
- Stood up a 4-person SRE team from scratch, establishing norms, onboarding workflows, and incident processes.
- Introduced Datadog and observability tooling, improving infrastructure stability and performance visibility.
- Built a structured incident severity classification and alerting system, reducing response time and improving operational clarity.
- Conducted security assessments and hardened platform infrastructure based on security findings.
Formstack
Director of Engineering, TechOps
- Hired and scaled a team of 20+ engineers across multiple disciplines and seniority levels.
- Led technical due diligence and integration for 4 M&A events, aligning standards, people, and systems post-acquisition.
- Drove adoption of PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance frameworks, embedding security into engineering workflows.
- Owned vulnerability management program, triaging and remediating application security findings across the product portfolio.
Skills
Leadership
Team structuring, hiring, coaching, and performance management. Scaling orgs through hypergrowth. Psychological safety and engineering excellence driven by measurable outcomes.
DevOps & Cloud
Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization, serverless architectures, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and relational and NoSQL database design.
Security & Compliance
GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, HITrust, CCPA, and SOC 2. Zero Trust Architecture, IAM, RBAC, vulnerability management, and application security.
Languages & AI
PHP, Swift, TypeScript, Bash, Rust, Python, Ruby, Go, and Java. Local model deployment, RAG pipelines, MCP integration, and agentic AI workflows for engineering productivity.