👋 Hello!

I'm Chris / "Trag".

Currently, I lead Developer Evangelism for Alexa+, Apps, & Games at Amazon. It's a massive developer program where I get to work with a global community of builders and partners creating products using our LLM-powered AI SDKs, streaming media players, and app categories.

Previously, I served as the Head of Developer Advocacy at Stripe where I led an amazing team of engineers, TPMs, and community managers. Together we launched Stripe's Open Source council and built the collection of @StripeDev scaled channels for sample code, video, and dev articles. I'm particularly proud of shedding light on the art of "Friction Logs": both how to create them and why it's critical for everyone to dogfood what we're building.

I built Developer Relations programs at Evernote (Pre-acquisition), Honda, and Roku (Pre-IPO). In addition, I was the VP of Product at M.io (YC'16), co-created the Evernote Pebble Watch app, and was the lead web developer for the Harvard News Office.

I was raised in Boston and came of age during the browser wars & flash battles of the early aughts before moving to the San Francisco Bay. I fell in love with full-stack development thanks to A List Apart, the Minuteman HS WebDev program, the Markup & Style Society / Dribbble meetups, and co-organizing WordCamp Boston.

Currently, I split my time between Austin (primary) and Seattle (HQ).