Christian Berry

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Co-founder & CTO at Cobalt Labs · Rust, community

Cobalt Labs
San Diego, CA · PT (UTC-8)
15+ years experience
Parsons School of Design
English
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Overview

I started Cobalt Labs to fix developer tooling for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Took Cobalt Labs from zero to $9 million ARR. Previously built and sold a small developer tooling company. Before that: Qualcomm and Kaiser Permanente. Most at home with Rust and product. Jazz piano, badly.

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  • Investors who back our stage and sector
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  • Generic networking requests
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Skills
open sourceproductcommunitydeveloper toolsRust
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Hiring our first founding engineer at Cobalt Labs - San Diego

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$185k-$255k + equity
Team
Founding team, 4 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with developer tools Production experience with open source Ownership of something end to end
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $146k-$257k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

San Diego, CArustproductdeveloper tools
Open
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $750k Series A for patient intake for airlines

Stage
Series A
Raising
$750k
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
77 paying customers after 22 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

77 paying customers after 22 months. Looking for investors who know wealth management and can help with hiring.

San Diego, CAcommunityrustopen source
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    May 2024 - Present
    Cobalt Labs · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Previously built and sold a small developer tooling company.
    • Grew the team to 68 people across 5 countries.
  2. Engagement Manager
    Jun 2020 - Apr 2024
    Qualcomm · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Delivered 13 engagements across 9 countries.
    • Ran commercial diligence on 39 deals.
  3. Business Analyst
    Dec 2017 - Jun 2020
    Kaiser Permanente · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Wrote the developer tools service that now handles 42 million requests a day.
  4. Consultant
    Dec 2015 - Dec 2017
    HubSpot · 2 yr · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Ran commercial diligence on 20 deals.
    • Delivered 12 engagements across 4 countries.
  5. Engagement Manager
    Mar 2012 - Dec 2015
    Target · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Ran commercial diligence on 37 deals.

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Education

  1. Parsons School of Design
    BFA, Economics
    2003 - 2007

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