Christian Sparks

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States6 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Founding engineer at a Y Combinator startup.
  • Led development of key features at Cloudflare.
  • Experience in both full stack and systems development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fullstack Developer with experience in SaaS and Networking industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentBackend Development

Other Skills

JavaScriptReact.jsNode.jsGoKubernetesAzure LUISElixirHTMLPrompt EngineeringWeb DesignData VisualizationD3.jsC#SQLThree.js

About

I am a software engineer who is experienced in full stack and systems development.

Experience

6 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 6 mos
Average Tenure
7 mos
Current Experience

Omnara (yc s25)

Founding Engineer

Oct 2025Present · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Cloudflare

Systems Engineer

Jul 2023Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · Hybrid

  • Cloudflare Workers Builds
  • Cloudflare Pages
  • MCP

Meta

Software Engineer Intern

May 2022Aug 2022 · 3 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States

  • Improved the dev experience for ad metrics, enabling developers to ship metrics that drive Meta’s advertising revenue and provide key insights to external advertisers
  • Led the development of permissions management for metric developer tools, minimizing the risk of SEVs (bugs & outages) on revenue-critical advertising metrics

Cloudflare

Software Engineer Intern

May 2021Aug 2021 · 3 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Specced out, implemented, and shipped Deploy Hooks for Cloudflare Pages, a feature highly requested by dozens of current and prospective users
  • Released a blog post displaying the new feature release: blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-deploy-hooks-for-cloudflare-pages
  • Aided in the day-to-day development of Cloudflare Pages, solving a litany of bugs and releasing features

Acm@uiuc

Infrastructure Chair

Sep 2020Jul 2021 · 10 mos · Urbana-Champaign Area

  • Charged with developing and maintaining essential ACM web infrastructure built in Go and React, which is in use by over 1,000 UIUC computer science students
  • Responsible for general purpose ACM servers both on-premises and in the cloud

Cloudflare, inc.

Software Engineer Intern

May 2020Aug 2020 · 3 mos · Champaign, Illinois, United States

  • Shipped distributed network diagnostic software built in Go to discover a customer’s network topology by aggregating traceroute data from over 200 of Cloudflare’s edge data centers.
  • Designed a React frontend enabling customer support staff and engineers to debug routing, latency, and GRE tunnels in both internal and external networks.
  • Created and maintained Kubernetes, Docker, and Teamcity configurations to automate deployments of customer-facing production APIs.

Otcr consulting

Partner

Feb 2020May 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Urbana-Champaign Area

  • Leading key research for the early-stage corporate venture capital arm of a public multibillion-dollar health tech company
  • Led the creation and presentation of multiple market analysis whitepapers for use by a startup providing SaaS to screen-printing companies
  • Provided essential employee churn analysis for the technological transformation of a major international fast food chain

Dunn solutions group

Intern, Data Analytics and Engineering

Jun 2019Aug 2019 · 2 mos · Greater Chicago Area

  • Developed a chatbot prototype with Node.js used for employee training and onboarding; Leveraged Azure LUIS and wrote dialog datasets to train its AI intent recognition models
  • Designed and coded ETL and database replication jobs with SAP Data Services used for internal time & billing databases to migrate from MSSQL Server 2000
  • Analyzed SAP BusinessObjects training workshops for clients

Cs4all @ cps

Member, Student Advisory Council

Sep 2018Jun 2019 · 9 mos · Greater Chicago Area

  • One of ten student representatives for curriculum on the CS4All (Chicago Public Schools’ computer science department) Student Advisory Council.
  • Organizing and analyzing the data from a district-wide computer science survey of CPS students.

Spokin

Intern, QA and Software Development

Jun 2018Aug 2018 · 2 mos · Greater Chicago Area

  • Debugged a crowdsourced food review application accessed by 10,000 users and acted as the sole QA tester on the technical team at Spokin
  • Supported outreach and growth of a fast-paced startup as an intern by deploying solutions to aid the content team in automating outreach
  • Performed automated backend testing using Node.js and Elasticsearch

Chicode

Co-Founder and Executive Officer, Developer

Dec 2017Jun 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Chicago Area

  • Incorporated Chicode as a Not For Profit and established partnerships with Chicago Public Schools to expand outreach and marketing capabilities
  • Organized events, curriculum, and clubs at Chicode to create an inclusive computer science community in Chicago
  • Developed websites using static HTML and Elm web applications;
  • Managed an Elixir backend to help operate events serving hundreds of students

Studentrnd

Codeday Chicago, Event Organizer

Sep 2017Jun 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Chicago Area

  • Volunteered for StudentRND to run Codeday Chicago, a casual hackathon focused on teaching students how to code.
  • Worked with multiple other volunteers to help organize activities, coding workshops, and sponsorships for the event.
  • Organized 5 events in Chicago.

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor of Science - BS — Computer Science

Jan 2019Jan 2023

Northside College Preparatory High School

Jan 2015Jan 2019

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