About

Warren Runk is an experienced technical leader and hands-on software engineer specializing in web systems at scale. With over 11 years of relevant experience, Warren is passionate about building great products and fast, affordable systems that are easy to maintain. He is extremely experienced with analyzing, recommending, and leading implementation of complex systems and applications in the service of business goals. Currently, Warren is the Co-Founder & CTO of Chorus Sleep, a startup that brings people together to connect to what matters, using a new kind of meditation that feels great to do. He is responsible for leading the technical team and building the product. Prior to this, Warren worked as the Director of Engineering at Clique Brands, where he interviewed, hired, and managed a remote development team including front-end, back-end, and quality assurance/control engineers. He led the implementation of a robust platform monitoring system to reduce cost and improve availability and performance. He incorporated staff editor feedback to greatly improve the internal content management system, which was written in Go with storage in MySQL used to power millions of article page views. Warren also designed, wrote, and managed the Go implementation of a content syndication system to export article content to various third-party platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and others. Before Clique Brands, Warren worked as the Director of Engineering at Boom! Payments, where he helped build a small ecommerce-focused startup from the ground up, as an architect, manager, and software engineer. He architected and implemented web services for use with ecommerce applications and SaaS. He managed a team of developers and contractors and JSON REST APIs written in Go, running AWS with data stored in Postgresql using EC2, S3, RDS, and supporting software in Python. Warren also managed and architected an advanced sales dashboard to help customers grow sales. Warren holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside, with a focus on software engineering, databases, and computer graphics. He also holds a React Nano Degree from Udacity and is currently enrolled in the Y Combinator program. Warren is dedicated to managing and mentoring teams of lifelong learners who prioritize customers, product, and business, empowering them to achieve high performance through creative and measured solutions. He believes that life and work should be fun and is always looking for new and exciting challenges to tackle. Warren's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, AWS, Web, Software Engineer, Python, QA, MySQL, Frontend,