Chase D.

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DISC Type : ci

Staff Software Engineer at Thistle

Austin, Texas, United States

Overview

Chase is a mission-driven Staff Software Engineer at Thistle with over 12 years of experience. An expert in Ruby on Rails, he successfully led an org-wide migration to a new Next. js/GraphQL stack at Goodreads, improving latency by 25%. He holds a BA with Honors from Swarthmore College.

Outside of his engineering career, Chase served as an Agriculture Specialist in the Peace Corps. In this role, he led a team to create an agricultural curriculum, trained 170 farmers, and published 25 training brochures. He values caring for ones mind and spirit, not just the body.

Unique fact: He designed, wrote, illustrated, and published agricultural training brochures in both Portuguese and English for the Peace Corps.

Personality Overview

Curious

Value Driven

Example Seeker

They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing.  They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting information. They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince.

Topics They Care About

Scalable Web Architecture
Architected and led a migration to a new tech stack serving over 500 million hits per month while significantly reducing latency.
Nurturing Engineering Teams
Describes his role as serving the team so they can serve the mission and has over 12 years of experience nurturing teams.
Agile Delivery
Emphasizes his focus on agile delivery of working customer benefits and used one-week sprints in his freelance work.

Media Appearances

Chase has no verified media appearances

Work History

11-2023
Staff Software Engineer at Thistle
2-2012 - 1-2023
Senior Software Engineer at Goodreads.com
2-2011 - 11-2011
Ruby on Rails Developer at Freelance
Agriculture Specialist at Peace Corps
11-2007 - 6-2008
Ruby on Rails Developer at Recyclebank

Education

2003 - 2007
BA with Honors from Swarthmore College

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Insights For Selling To Chase

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Invite them for a social do but don’t rely solely on the relationship
  • Build rapport, it will come handy to handle hard questions later
  • Help them understand the risk aspect fully while inspiring confidence

DONT's

  • Don’t rely excessively on your relationship with them to win the deal
  • Don’t brush off any concerns, take all questions seriously
  • Avoid making offhand commitments

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Chase is

  • Proven value, strong testimonials are important to them, relationships will have some weightage.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Chase

  • They are practical yet friendly, don’t expect a clear no very often.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Chase move?

  • They like to analyze well and can take their time to reach any decisions.
  • Can Chase take some risk or not?

  • They evaluate their decisions systematically and are less likely to take risks.

You And Chase

Personality Compatibility


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