Christopher Barthol
Senior Engineering Manager at CompanyCam
Greater Tampa Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Barthol is a senior engineering manager with over a decade of experience scaling teams and delivering product-led technical solutions, currently leading engineering at CompanyCam. He grew Beam Benefits' engineering organization from 5 to 30+ engineers, built career frameworks that drove >95% retention, cut product support costs by 75%, and managed a $10M+ engineering budget. Christopher combines hands-on backend experience (Ruby/Rails, Dockerization) with systems thinking—having improved enrollment flows from 60% to 95% and architected a provider network for 120K+ providers. He founded and chaired Beam’s AI committee to establish governance, best practices, and training, marrying AI stewardship with practical product delivery. With a PhD-trained engineering background and contributions to civic-focused open source (Rails-based case management for abortion funds), he brings rigorous experimentation and a bias for measurable impact to cross-functional teams.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Lehigh UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (11)
docker10
rails10
back-end-development10
dockers10
ruby-on-rails10
testing9
unit-test9
minitest9
rspec9
webpacker7
webpack7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DARIAEngineering/dcaf_case_management
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
Rails-based case management system for abortion funds
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Christopher focused on improving the Rails-based case management system's functionality and infrastructure. Their contributions included refactoring patient search features, adding webpacker service for Dockerization, and correcting file paths. They also modified and added tests for patient models and adjusted development environment configurations. Their work demonstrates a focus on both application logic and the supporting development environment.
rails
ChrisBarthol/recipe-rails
Aug 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
backendnodejsexpressmongodb
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