Kris is the City Lead for Waterloo. I'm a zero-to-one product creator with a love for smooth product surfaces powered by impressive technical platforms. By solving the hardest challenges once in development, users put their cognitive energy into their goal rather than the product. I love rallying teams toward product creation, with a focus on empowering directly responsible individuals in connection with the cross-functional partners they need. In other words, one person owns each result and can innovate and iterate to achieve it; they do this as part of a dynamic team rather than fragmenting everything into separate work items. This allows for the creativity and agility required to generate solutions that deliver results within the chosen timeframe. Technically, I've been hands-on across the stack, from UIs to APIs to firmware. My most recent experience has focused on React, Node, Typescript, Rails, serverless compute, and PostgreSQL. In the past, I've built firmware and engines in C++.