# Chance Feick

> Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chancefeick

Technical leader with over 10 years of experience in software engineering and web application development. Specializes in building and operating APIs, web applications, and distributed systems for SaaS products at scale.

## Work Experience
### Staff Backend Engineer @ GitLab
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
• Architecting, building, and operating Infrastructure Platforms for GitLab, the DevSecOps platform.
• Focused on REST and GraphQL APIs for Developer Experience.

### Senior Backend Engineer @ GitLab
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Launched general availability for Code Suggestions by improving production readiness for AI infrastructure.
• Incubated internal platform to deploy and operate services on self-serve paved path with best SRE practices.
• Led rollout of first multi-region deployment for stateless services on GitLab.com to reduce latency.
• Developed capacity planning prioritization framework for proactively scaling horizontal and vertical saturation resources.

### Engineering Manager @ Orbit
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Founded Platform team responsible for core data services and infrastructure.
• Held 1:1s with direct reports to provide support and feedback for engineers.
• Ran standups with Kanban board to remove blockers and celebrate wins for team.
• Planned, reviewed and retrospected biweekly sprints to achieve goals for backlog.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Orbit
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Architected, built, and operated APIs and UIs with Rails for Orbit, a community analytics SaaS.
• Launched general availability by implementing core functionality and performing operations for production-ready web application.
• Released top installed integration with Discord API to provide users with insights into server usage.
• Increased cost efficiency by migrating search functionality from vendor to Elasticsearch cluster.

### Senior Software Engineer @ SolarWinds
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Architected, built, and maintained APIs and UIs with Rails for AppOptics, an APM SaaS.
• Launched general availability by implementing core functionality for user authentication, organization management, onboarding, billing, and trials.
• Expanded product offering to Heroku add-ons marketplace to generate new revenue stream.
• Drove adoption of GraphQL gateway and React component library to consolidate portfolio of SaaS products.

### Software Engineer @ Librato, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Built and maintained APIs and UIs with Rails for Librato, a cloud monitoring SaaS.
• Launched integrations catalog with third-party APIs and partners for inbound and outbound data.
• Generated account usage reports to provide customers with insights into billing usage.
• Maintained and contributed to open-source clients for public REST API.

### Software Engineer @ Bleacher Report
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Built and maintained APIs with Rails for Bleacher Report, a high-traffic digital media site.
• Imported and aggregated social media content to facilitate user engagement with customized feeds.
• Automated customization of interstitials to increase mobile app installs and drive user growth.
• Reduced response times and error rates by using monitoring to improve stability for users.

### Software Engineer, Intern @ Computer Enterprises, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• Implemented web application with C# for an insurance agency client.

### Software Engineer, Intern @ Computer Enterprises, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• Implemented web application with C# to administer satisfaction surveys for clients.


## Education
### B.S. in Computer Science
Indiana University of Pennsylvania


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chancefeick
- GitHub: https://github.com/chancefeick
- Portfolio: https://chancefeick.com
- Portfolio: https://gitlab.com/cfeick

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Last updated: 2026-03-31