Chris Recalis
Chief Technology Officer at Rover
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Recalis is a pragmatic CTO with 12 years of experience scaling event-driven platforms and teams, currently leading Rover’s fan engagement product from Toronto. He specializes in high-throughput systems—Kafka, Kubernetes, and TypeScript-based services—and has driven architectures that handle sustained tens of thousands of messages/requests per second and billions of notifications. Chris combines hands-on engineering (he still writes core platform code and is building a modern Kafka client in TypeScript) with operational ownership across GCP, observability, and cost/security controls. He has a track record of re-architecting monoliths into resilient, developer-friendly platforms and growing engineering velocity through clear ownership and hiring.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Korean
Stackoverflow
83reputation
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4questions
Github Skills (52)
kotlin10
experiences10
android-sdk10
push-notifications10
safari-push-notifications10
logging10
fluentd10
ios9
ruby9
apple-push-notifications9
android9
swift9
jwt8
rover8
nodejs7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chrisrecalis/Dynamoid
Oct 2013 - Nov 2015
Contributions:36 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
chrisrecalis/kafkats
Dec 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:40 PRs, 129 pushes, 134 branches in 6 months
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