Hi, I'm Christa Hartsock.
I'm currently a backend software engineer at Meedan, a non-profit working globally to address misinformation. I live in San Francisco with my husband, Jim Fingal, and our rescue bully, Piglet.
In the recent past I've worked as:
- a consulting engineer at 18F, the US federal government's technology and design consultancy
- an engineering manager, software engineer, and engineering lead at Code for America, working to improve access to criminal record relief as part of Clear My Record, and help ease the burden of getting safety net benefits through the Integrated Benefits Initiative and GetCalFresh.
Prior to working with government, I've worked as an engineer at the agile consultancy Pivotal Labs (RIP) and at another small product consultancy, as a studio manager at an architecture firm, as a travel guide writer in Barcelona, on a variety of cleanup crews, in many ice cream shops, and a number of other things.
Outside of work, I help publish Logic Magazine, and have been running a small forum I built for friends.
I exist a few other places:
- my (infrequent) email newsletter
- mastodon - friend.camp (my main account)
- mastodon - ruby.social (ruby and coding practices-focused)
- mastodon - sfba.social (more san francisco-focused stuff)
- github
- my powerlifting instagram
- bookwyrm (federated, non-corporate goodreads)
- email: christa (dot) hartsock (at) gmail (dot) com
- offline, mostly in san francisco, often at the Harvey Milk Photo Center
If you'd like to talk, shoot me a message via email. I'm often slow at responding, but do have the best intentions. Short, direct asks usually get a response more quickly.
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