Kristian Kristensen
Engineering Manager at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKristian Kristensen is an experienced engineering leader with eight years in senior roles and a longer technical career spanning backend, full‑stack, and some hardware work. Currently an Engineering Manager at Meta in Developer Infrastructure, he has previously led high-impact teams at The New York Times—helping add over 1.5 million digital subscribers—and held multiple VP engineering roles at consumer and startup companies. He combines hands-on engineering (Go, Ruby, Python, .NET) with product-facing platform and payments experience from Venmo and subscription/ecommerce systems. Known for moving between startup scrappiness and large‑scale operational rigor, he also consults and taught/coached earlier in his career, reflecting a strong mentoring and architecture background. Based in New York, Kristian pairs technical depth with business outcomes, often translating complex infrastructure work into measurable growth.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Software Engineering, M.Sc., Software Engineering at Aalborg UniversityHacked on the projects Erloku, Erlchat, EM-SMSified, and TweetHose available on Github., Hacked on the projects Erloku, Erlchat, EM-SMSified, and TweetHose available on Github. at Hacker School / Recurse CenterM.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at West Virginia UniversityMathematics, Physics, Mathematics, Physics at Aalborghus Gymnasium
English, Danish, German
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Github Skills (157)
bitcoind10
websocket10
miner10
cryptocurrency10
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p2p10
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mining10
avr10
api10
atmega10
staging10
platformio10
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bitcoin10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
beyondcoin-project/electrum-bynd
Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
Electrum-BYND; Beyondcoin thin client.
Contributions:2 releases, 11 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
thin-clientelectrumblockchainbeyondcointhin
Catboys-Dev/catboys-py
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 21 commits, 17 pushes in 7 months
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