Chime
On-call automation
Cut on-call from often more than 40 hours a week to a couple of hours of verification a week, after three months automating failure detection and correction.
Chris's account, 2026-08-07 interview — not audited.
Chris Dwan
I help engineering teams ship real software with AI agents.
Shipped
Patient Wisdom
Lead developer
Took a two-developer prototype to market-ready in about two months, with co-founder Nate Perry-Thistle.
Chris's account.
capybara_narrative
Open source, 2020–2025
A small language that hides brittle XPath mappings behind readable page descriptions — tests stopped being flaky.
Verified public repo — github.com/radixhound/capybara_narrative.
Early career
Unix/SAP integration
Designed a DSL so one mapping file could merge several flat-file sources into a single clean input.
Chris's account.
Recent writing
No posts published yet. The first post is fully specified (thread T10) and lands separately from this design pass.
How I work
“I'm not a manager so much as a leader.”
“All the work had to pass through the collective mind of the team.”