Chris M Balz

Summary

Want to get on track to reach The Forbes 2000, or simply get to smooth, reliable, great delivery at your department? Great - contact me! Using 23 years of hands-on xp in the Silicon Valley, I will create a plan for your company/department/team to WIN. This means taking a deep look at the scalability of your software engineering, process, and team organization. If your goal is to get that IPO, reduce waste, harvest valuable IP, or work better with your stakeholders by delivering on time and creating/meeting an SLA, I can come through for you because I've been there before and can show the way! My approach: https://bit.ly/chrisbalz-how-to-scale A few public highlights: * Issued Patents​: Sole Inventor: US 20140258877 ; US 9,971,833; US 10,904,328 * The leading mock of AWS' EC2: https://github.com/treelogic-swe/aws-mock (owner) * Contributor to the Gridcoin whitepaper: https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Tasks/pull/236 * https://github.com/nottoseethesun Created the most popular module on LiveStand, Apple's 2011 Top 5 Free News App. Built the first JavaScript framework that is both well-engineered and suitable for the consumer Web, Et1 (first shipped under scale in 2007, and still powering major parts of E*Trade's website). Panelist at IBM AlphaWork's 10-year Anniversary( https://bit.ly/2Gek1iS ). Contributed to core parts of a product that won Best Web 2.0 Innovation from Shiny Media in early 2007 ( http://www.cmswire.com/cms/micro-cms/vox-wins-best-web-20-innovation-001120.php). Created/contributed (libraries/core) to a total of six JavaScript frameworks, including one of the most highly-scaled JavaScript frameworks, eBay's. Earned an M.S. in Software Engineering with a cumulative GPA of 3.70 from Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Computer Science, ranked that year and in other years as the #1 Computer Science Dep't for graduate programs by "U.S. News and World Report". In 2005, co-authored the definitive documentation on the JavaScript statement 'with' on the Mozilla Developer site, with the creator of JavaScript, Brendan Eich: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Statements/with Helped Brendan to see a mistake ( http://web.archive.org/web/20151016234725/http://osdir.com/ml/mozilla.devel.jseng/2005-08/msg00115.html ) in the JavaScript language specification. Participate in the improvement of the browser platform: See a bug filed on Chrome ( http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1975 ) and a bug filed on Firefox ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456151 ).