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Christian Battaglia

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Quick Stats
14+ years

Building software

19 positions

Across startups & enterprise

Brooklyn

New York, United States

Career Journey

CTO

Slabstack (Acquired)

Founder

Triple Axle

Founding Eng

Glovo, FIXD

Eng

AB InBev, Amplify

I take ambitious product vision into the engineering butcher shop; where ideas get translated into clear, intentional tradeoffs.

The job isn't to build everything. It's to present a menu:

- Fast: what we can ship in days to validate and move the business now - Good: a solid baseline that delivers value while carrying intentional, manageable debt - Well: the solution we'd build with time, leverage, and durability in mind

Great teams win by knowing which path fits the moment and executing with conviction.

I operate at the crossroads of product and engineering, focused on shipping outcomes, aligning incentives, and building systems that scale with the business.

{ hacker · software engineer · product manager · engineering leader }

Experience

Vice President of Engineering
Current

Slabstack, A Sysdyne Company

  • Slabstack was acquired by Sysdyne, where I now serve as VP of Engineering, continuing to lead the platform and engineering org post-acquisition.

Dec 2025 - Present

New York, New York, United States

Chief Technology Officer

Slabstack

  • Joined early-stage B2B SaaS company focused on sales, pricing, and CRM software for concrete, aggregates, and asphalt producers

  • Enabled ~3× revenue growth by scaling core sales infrastructure to support higher deal volume, enterprise customers, and expanded markets without proportional headcount growth

  • Defined technical strategy and architecture for a verticalized CRM and pricing platform serving heavy building materials suppliers

  • Built and scaled engineering organization, hiring founding and growth-stage engineers across backend, frontend, and infrastructure

  • Designed core data models to support quotes, pricing rules, customers, jobs, products, and dispatch-aligned workflows

  • Led development of dynamic pricing and quoting systems to replace spreadsheet and email-driven sales processes

  • Architected multi-tenant, market-isolated system supporting complex customer, product, and geographic constraints

  • Implemented role-based access control and fine-grained authorization across internal users, sales reps, and management

  • Built integrations with dispatch and production systems to align sales activity with operational realities

  • Scaled platform reliability and performance to support real-time quoting and high-frequency sales workflows

  • Partnered closely with CEO and product leadership to translate customer pain points into roadmap execution

  • Supported enterprise customer onboarding, data migration, and custom pricing logic during go-live phases

  • Played central role in technical diligence and integration planning during acquisition by Sysdyne Technologies

Go
TypeScript
React
PostgreSQL
SQLC
pgx
Row-Level Security (RLS)
JSONB

Nov 2024 - Dec 2025

New York, New York, United States

Co-Founder & CEO

Triple Axle

Feb 2024 - Nov 2024

New York, New York, United States

Co-Founder & CTO

Triple Axle

  • Co-founded and raised funding on assumption of approximate $250M TAM for specialty trucking routing, permitting, quoting

  • Hired 3 founding engineers within first 3 months

  • Designed and developed MVP permitting application to be incrementally added with acquisition of new regional data

  • Aggregated DOT restriction data of all 48 continental US states, Alaska, and Canada

  • Launched application in October 2022 to 5 customers

  • Maintained 95% application uptime in first year of operation

  • Managed customer support with 24/7 operating hours

  • Acquired map data and licensed software to convert any shapefile data to OSM format and route using forked version of Valhalla C++ routing library

  • Contracted with 3rd party company to support 100% of industry ELD devices

  • Reraised an additional capital in May 2023 and launched differentiated TMS product by November 2023

Node.js
TypeScript
React
Next.js
AWS (RDS
ECS
EC2)
Cloudflare

Mar 2022 - Feb 2024

New York, New York, United States

Software Architect

BEES

  • Leading full-stack “algorithmic selling” team architecting cross-sell, up-sell, regulars & quick order modules on iOS, Android & web

Java (Spring Boot)
Node.js
Python
Azure (AKS & DevOps)
MongoDB Atlas
RabbitMQ
Docker
React

Mar 2021 - Mar 2022

Manhattan, New York, United States

Alumni Network Executive Board Member
Current

College of Computing at Georgia Tech

May 2020 - Present

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Principal Software Engineer

Anheuser-Busch InBev

  • Managed successful migration from Amazon AWS to Microsoft Azure using Terraform and multi-cloud standards

  • Developed first iteration of ABI's "Global Marketplace Engine" partnering with other CPG (consumer packaged goods) brands delivering last mile to over 40k POCs in CDMX and Monterrey, Mexico

PHP
Terraform
Azure (AAD
CDN
Key Vault
VM
Storage)
MariaDB

May 2020 - Mar 2022

Manhattan, New York, United States

Senior Software Engineer

Amplify

  • Directly impacted growth in the form of expected yearly revenue through sales to 5 boroughs NYC K-5, Chicago K-12 and whole state of California K-8 in 2019-2020; e-books, webapps, HTML <canvas> and Unity games/simulations powered by microservice APIs

  • Implemented html to pdf textbook publishing pipeline using streams, containers & S3 trimming costs by 90% and enabling on-demand scaling

  • Reduced engineering time to minimum viable product by 6 months interoping legacy AngularJS code with React

  • Architected advanced curriculum delivery application displaying “slides” style lesson format with realtime collaborative interactives

  • Maintained offline-first web-based learning management system using isomorphic JavaScript on frontend and backend

JS
Java
AWS (EC2
SQS
Aurora
RDS & S3)
Chef
Docker

Jan 2018 - May 2020

Greater New York City Area

Project Lead & Senior Software Engineering Consultant

InRhythm

  • Consulting with educational media company, Amplify, in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY

  • Directly managed and mentored team of 2 front-end engineers working with Vue and Angular frameworks

  • Individually contributed as full stack engineer on "Team Science" in charge of vision for all science curriculum at Amplify

  • Worked in sync with our firm in Manhattan to account manage my team, project and Amplify as client extending our statement of work well past the original expectation

  • Assisted in placing consulting positions at other clients throughout the US through interviews, onboarding

  • Attempted to keep up a hearty, open engineering culture through our company communication channels to help everyone maintain a connection with "home base" while out in the field

Jan 2018 - Feb 2019

Greater New York City Area

Founding Engineer

FIXD Automotive, Inc.

  • Managed backend with 10x growth (approx 10,000 to 100,000 users) over 8 month marketing push

  • Scaled API services using Ruby on Rails with Postgres powering individual native iOS, Android and web apps

  • Worked within iOS and Android repos for time sensitive features and services alleviating growing pains and app parity

  • Oversaw 2 customer engagement efforts as product manager leading to 35% increase in monthly active users

Ruby
AWS (CloudFormation & Lambda)
Docker
Linux
GitLab CI
Redis
Postgres
DynamoDB

Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

Greater Atlanta Area

Campus Representative

Tapingo

  • Managed campus branding and growth at Georgia Tech

  • Worked between San Francisco team and Sodexo Campus Services to solve support issues and customer concerns

Oct 2016 - May 2017

Greater Atlanta Area

Teaching Assistant

Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Taught 40 students Ethics of Computing and developed curriculum based on moral dilemmas currently plaguing the tech industry

  • Hosted inaugural international collab hackathon, “HackGT@UPC”, focusing on city accessibility for elderly and the sharing economy

OpenCV
Python (2 & 3)
Adobe Premiere
Adobe After Effects
Open Data BCN

May 2016 - Aug 2016

Barcelona Area, Spain

Founding Engineer

Glovo

  • Managed 20% of all company traffic via renewed progressive web app driving users to mobile apps through exempt features

  • Tracked app text versioning for release in 5 languages including Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian and English

  • Managed 100+ couriers in 5 cities (Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Milan, Paris) tracing GPS and routing in real time within Java event-based back-end

JS (ECMAScript & Node)
Java
PHP
Linux
MySQL
Gulp
Angular
Gradle

May 2015 - Aug 2016

Barcelona Area, Spain

Teaching Assistant

Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Assisted 30 students with Computational Photography, hosting help sessions 2x/week on topics such as blurring, blending, HDR, etc.

  • Acted as counselor and advisor to students with physical and mental health, academic and personal concerns

May 2015 - Aug 2015

Barcelona Area, Spain

Software Engineering Researcher

Georgia Tech Research Institute

  • Led effort to “promisify” and rewrite 200+ Angular services reducing technical debt and removing race conditions

  • Obtained security clearance for government contract web development building webapps similar to Google G Suite’s Gmail and Google Drive but with advanced safety features

Java
C#
JS (ECMAScript & Node)
Guice
Oracle SQL
Angular
Gulp
Bootstrap

Jan 2014 - May 2017

Atlanta, Georgia

IT & Marketing Intern

BlueLinx Corporation

  • Created and coordinated eCommerce website with 10+ IBM contractors and 20+ outsourced Indian developers

  • Standardized over 10,000 building material product records populating primary database for website

May 2013 - Aug 2013

Atlanta, GA

Campus Representative

GrubHub

  • Sponsored approximately 4 events per month in effort to boost campus sales on GrubHub.com

Aug 2012 - Dec 2012

Atlanta, GA

National Accounts Representative

BlueLinx Corporation

  • Fielded 100+ calls daily solving logistics and supply chain management issues, remedying top customer concerns

  • Managed partnership with Home Depot and Lowes to fulfill special sales order requests, utilitzing knowledge of over 150 products

May 2012 - Aug 2012

Atlanta, GA

Assistant Mechanic

East Cobb Lawn Mower Service

  • Repaired small engines such as lawn mowers, string trimmers, and blowers

  • Fielded technical support questions from walk-in customers about basic mechanical issues

  • Sharpened saw chains, lawn mower blades, hedge trimmers, etc.

May 2008 - Aug 2010

Marietta, GA

Skills & Technologies

Languages
TypeScript
Java
Python
JavaScript
Swift
C#
Frontend
React
Vue
AngularJS
SASS
Redux
Express
Backend
Node
Spring MVC
Express
Dropwizard
Infrastructure
Amazon Web Services
Docker Products
Microsoft Azure
Terraform
Kubernetes
DevOps
Databases
PostgreSQL
Postgres
MySQL
MongoDB
SQL
MariaDB
Redis
Tools & Platforms
Linux
Azure DevOps
Git
GitHub
Microservices
Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BS - CS)

Aug 2012 - Dec 2017

Phi Delta Theta
Lacrosse
Executive Round Table
Jazz Ensemble
Languages

Spanish - Professional working proficiency

English - Native or bilingual proficiency

Community

GT CoC Alumni Executive Board - Since 2020

GT Executive Round Table - Member

Notable Achievements

Enabled ~3× revenue growth by scaling core sales infrastructure at Slabstack

Co-founded Triple Axle and raised funding on $250M TAM for specialty trucking

10x user growth (10K → 100K) at FIXD Automotive in 8 months

Reduced publishing costs by 90% with streaming HTML-to-PDF pipeline at Amplify

Managed 20% of company traffic via PWA at Glovo (5 languages, 5 cities)

Delivered Global Marketplace Engine to 40k+ POCs across Mexico at AB InBev

Led technical diligence and integration during acquisition by Sysdyne Technologies

Reduced MVP development time by 6 months with AngularJS + React interop at Amplify

Beyond Code

Music

Alto saxophone (2nd chair) in GT Jazz Ensemble. Exploring music technology with Spotify API and audio analysis.

Sports

Midfielder on GT Men's Lacrosse. Scholar-Athlete recognition for 2+ varsity sports in high school.

Teaching

TA for Ethics of Computing at Georgia Tech. Hosted inaugural international HackGT@UPC in Barcelona.