# Chris Ling > Founding Engineer Location: Los Altos, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/chrisling Experienced hands-on Engineering Manager and Software Engineer with a track record of creating new products, building and supporting highly engaged engineering teams, and growing and mentoring engineering managers, technical leads, and software engineers. ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer @ OrgOrg (YC S24) Jan 2024 – Present | Los Altos, California, United States ### Contributor @ OrgOrg (YC S24) Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States - recharging the batteries - getting hands on enjoying building ### Software Engineering Manager @ Google Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 - Managed team of 10 SWE to support app creation & lifecycle management platform (SLM). - Established strong partnership with the Boq Web frameworks team and created a multi-year strategy and roadmap to provide support for Boq Web and Boq Angular based apps. - Established key-partnership with Corp Eng Developer Infrastructure team (10 SWE, L8 TLM) to deliver Angular-Dart on SLM, de-duplicated infrastructure and generalized features to benefit the greater SLM ecosystem. Moved from a siloed working model to a strong collaboration model with shared planning and execution. - Developed strong cross-functional collaboration with UX, UXR, PM, TPM partners and cross pillar leads up to L8 - Delivered SLM apps on Boq & Pod infrastructure, a multi-quarter, large team effort, nominated for Core Tech Impact award at the director level. - Co-led Symphony Designer Rewrite across two teams to replace polymer based application with an Angular typescript app. Closed alpha of Automation Studio launched. - Established Frontend Excellence workstream to focus on component libraries, a11y, mend-it-monday, testing and performance. - Built career plans, held weekly 1:1’s, facilitated team meetings, planned and executed to quarterly and annual OKRs. - Conducted 21 interviews in 6 months, served as gMentor to two L6’s, actively participated in Google Champion program - Contributed to the community by facilitating local ERG meetup. ### Co-Founder, CEO @ Coir Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Bootstrapping an onboarding, learning management app. Was in process of raising an angel round but decided to change course due to Covid. ### Engineering Manager @ Facebook Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park Hired to build Manager Products team from scratch. Grew to 3 teams, 14 SWE, 1 EM. - Built Manager Products team, recruited 6 SWE, created new zero-to-one products. - Refactored Pulse v2 company engagement survey, 15%->30% action plan creation, >75% NPS. - Created Manager Co-Pilot, released company wide with >60% action rate, 500% increase in organic adoption. - Managed Onboarding team to create company Onboarding Tool, resulting in +10% increase in belonging, 5k plans, 500+ modules, 82% product satisfaction. - Built Grow (career growth) Products team of 5 engineers to rapidly prototype career growth tools and find product-market fit. - Achieved 92% and 96% employee engagement score in most recent surveys +17pts above average. ### Engineering Manager @ Pinterest Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 - Managed 1 team 10 SWE. Grew to 2 teams 13 SWE, 1 EM, 2 TL. - Managed Homefeed team across Web/iOS/Android, XFN React migration, shipped Instant Ideas. - Managed Core Product team, built frameworks for Web/iOS/Android, shipped video across platforms enabling $40mm in ARR. - Managed Mobile Web team and Android Platform team, shipped Pinterest PWA, rewrote Android codebase to use MVP pattern ### Engineering Manager @ Box Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 - Managed 1 team, 2 SWE. Grew to 2 teams, 15 SWE and 2 interns. - Guided engineers through 8 promotions with 100% committee approval rate. - Achieved manager 98% pulse score, +20pts above average. - Initiated and resourced project to rewrite the Box Web Application which resulted in a new tech foundation/architecture and user experience. Improved NPS by 64%. Launched at BoxWorks 2016 keynote on 9/6/2016. - Supported Globalization team, i18n/l10n, launched webapp for Japan/EMEA markets. Created translation platform for all product teams to launch globally. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Box Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 Tech lead for the performance team. - Drove >50% improvement in application performance and latency working throughout the stack and across services. Performance improvements contributed to reduction in customer churn, valued at $4M. - Contributed over 100k significant lines of code over 2 years. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Alta Devices Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Santa Clara, CA Lead the development of build/experiment tracking, inventory control, and metrology tooling web application increasing the productivity of our scientists to build a world record efficiency, flexible solar panel. ### Senior Staff Engineer @ Renewable Energy Test Center Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Fremont, CA Lead the development of test execution system and measurement collection web applications to provide governance and compliance, enabling lab to achieve international accreditation. ### Staff Engineer @ Solaria Corporation Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | Fremont, CA Lead development of manufacturing execution, inventory control, document control, and data analysis web applications enabling company to achieve compliance and governance to sell product to regulated market. ### Senior Engineer @ Xilinx Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 | San Jose, CA Led development of mission-critical manufacturing process control system serving 300+ users: - Architected web application processing 300+ GB data, delivering 500+ daily reports - Achieved 12,000 hours annual productivity savings for 300+ internal users through process automation - Managed 1 engineer and 2 interns; provided technical mentorship to team of 5 developers - Established code review processes and system architecture standards ### Intern @ Xilinx Jan 1999 – Jan 2003 | San Jose, CA Developed web applications to modernize semiconductor manufacturing analytics, successfully migrating legacy Excel VBA systems to streamline process monitoring and data visualization ## Education ### BS in EECS University of California, Berkeley ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science UCLA ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chriseling --- Source: https://flows.cv/chrisling JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/chrisling/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05