# Chris Messer

> Software Engineer at Sigma Computing

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chrismesser

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Sigma Computing
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Rill Data
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer II @ Globality, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park, CA
Created front-end (React) / gateway (Node / GraphQL) services for back-office tool to handle the management and analysis of Globality’s dynamic content engine (5000+ questions and thousands of potential flows).  The process was previously managed with dozens of excel sheets / github hooks. The tool is now used company-wide daily for content creation, updates, and analysis. 

Developed and wrote technical designs for full-stack features related to user flows in the client-facing application. Features include new dynamic forms for users, surfacing and adding visual treatments for progress, and making a previously pusher-based flow synchronous for performance

Contributed to new standards throughout our codebase including file structure / naming conventions, shared component patterns, and GraphQL usage

Interviewed 80+ candidates and mentored dozens of incoming engineers through guided sessions, updated onboarding documentation, and ad-hoc Q&A / pair programming

### Senior Software Engineer @ Globality, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park, CA

### Software Engineer @ Globality, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park, CA

### Data Insights Manager @ Forrester
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Managed Fortune 500 clients and assisted in renewals to Forrester’s data service by delivering insights from Forrester’s primary research and forecasting data.

### Data Advisor @ Forrester
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, MA
Led the development and implementation of interactive dashboard content in Tableau for clients. Managed over 25 clients for Forrester’s forecasting data product.

### Associate Market Research Analyst @ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Boston, MA

### Sales and Marketing Coordinator @ K logix, LLC
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013


## Education
### BSBA in Marketing and Management Information Systems
Northeastern University

### Advanced Software Engineering Immersive in Computer Science
Hack Reactor

### Building and Managing Business Intelligence and Analytics Systems
Harvard Extension School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chris-h-messer

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Last updated: 2026-04-01