To Be, or Not to Be
A short autobiography from birth at Johns Hopkins through Maryland, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Barcelona, and landing in New York City — a timeline of the places and moments that made me.
Christian Battaglia
July 23, 2020
3 min read
autobiography
personal history
Maryland
Georgia
Barcelona
NYC
Georgia Tech
timeline
A short history:
- 12-22-1993
- Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland
- winter solstice on 12-21-1993 20:36
- 1993-12-22 through Summer 1999
- River Hill, Columbia, Maryland
- black eyed susans
- tadpoles
- community pool
- Pokemon cards
- Magic the Gathering
- Summer 1999+
- Roswell, Georgia
- 4+ GPA
- 7th out of 420 students in my grade
- Thanksgiving 2011
- early acceptance to Georgia Tech
- December 19, 2011
- 大麻 and my first beer
- May 2012 graduation
- Summer 2012 BlueLinxCo
- Ford Explorer down to Georgia Tech
- Fiji, Sigma Nu, ATO, PDT
- Spring 2013
- lacrosse
- Summer 2013
- BlueLinxCo data ecommerce
- Spring 2014
- GTRI Angular 1.x promises
- Summer 2014
- Barcelona round 1
- Summer 2015
- Barcelona round 2 with Ashley and Glovo starting
- August 2015
- Vipassana meditation Jesup, GA
- Fall 2015
- Bring Jimmy home
- Spring 2016
- Glovo round 2 with 2 million dollars of funding
- August 2016 back home
- January/February 2017
- FIXD app
- Winter 2017
- graduation from Georgia tech
- video included?
- early December 2017
- phone call from Grandma and Grandpa about getting tires for my truck $650
- December 21, 2017
- Andy Philbert phone call for InRhythm
- Mid January 2018
- packed up and moved to NYC
- Summer 2018
- first talks with Amplify about full time work
- January/February 2019
- waited for bonus and then left InRhythm
- March/April 2019
- Ambulnz
- May 2019
- Amplify
Family tree:
- GEDCOM?
- what does 23andME use for theirs?
- X chromosome on the left (egg)
- X/Y chromosome "chooser" (sperm)
- Battaglia
- Sicilian and Southern Italian?
Career:
- East Cobb Lawn Mower
- 14 years old
- Pizza Man Express
- 16/17 years old?
- BlueLinx Co
- 18 years old
- customer service
- NATO callsigns
- Home Depot and Lowes
- 128 phonecalls in a day
- 1 phone call every 8 minutes
- BlueLinx Co
- 19 years old data entry and filtering for new ecommerce platform
- convert to Google Sheets
- GTRI
- Java, Spring, Angular 1.x
- secret security clearance
- Glovo
- 2014
- 2015
- Jan 2016 - August 2016 web lead, SQL analytics for Cyfe
- FIXD
- Ruby on Rails
- GiddyUp marketing
- InRhythm
- consulting
- Amplify (lead with 1 other Edd)
- built a "CMS -> printing press" using Java and Python together
- isomorphic JavaScript layer for sharing code with frontend and backend
- American Express, Goldman Sachs, etc
- Ambulnz
- 1.5 months
- Amplify
- 1 year
- LMS + Google Slides + PDF.js + React + Presentation API
- AB InBev
- Lead Software Engineer
- consultants
- Microsoft Consultants
- Kumulus Consultants
- McFadyen
- tech/products
- Mirakl
- Akeneo
- Magento
- initiatives
- redesign
- Modelorama (customer groups)
- Mirakl and global marketplace
- Bees? Global Marketplace for AB InBev?
- 54 billion dollar net revenue based on Forbes