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Hi, I'm
Kris Walker

I'm a computer programmer, turned software engineering manager at where my team builds the streaming playback technology under the hood in , , and .

I'm insanely passionate about hypermedia and the World Wide Web. I publish a web magazine about the Web called www.kixx.news where I hope you'll find something interesting.

I live in Saratoga Springs, NY, but have also lived and worked in Los Angeles, Boston and New York.

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Writing

Here are some highlights of what I've written. Or, check out the full list of essays to get it all.

  • Make Your Own Luck

    Luck plays a role in our successes and failures. But we can make our own luck if we take deliberate action to make ourselves a target for it.

  • How to build a great software engineering team.

    Being a software engineering leader isn't about building great software. It's about building great teams. Great teams build great software.

  • The Vintage Software Engineer

    I tend to downplay most of the new shiny things that younger people get excited about. But maybe that's just a side effect of getting older?

More on my essays page.