Kristopher Sandoval

Dates: March 2015 – Present

As Technical Evangelist at Nordic APIs, I've spent 10+ years building one of the API industry's most recognized practitioner communities, growing it to 500K+ monthly visitors through technical content and developer evangelism. I've co-authored 12 books covering API design, security, DevOps, and governance, and written 500+ articles, whitepapers, and guides on topics ranging from LLM integration to open-source governance — in partnership with organizations like Salesforce, OWASP, OAuth, Amazon, and OPA. I'm also a recurring speaker at the Nordic APIs Platform Summit, presenting on API security, developer experience, and emerging paradigms to international audiences.

Dates: March 2024 – March 2025

As Global Marketing and Events Manager at thatgamecompany, I directed worldwide marketing for Sky: Children of the Light across a 1.3M+ player base, leading multi-region user acquisition and retention campaigns that contributed to $128M ARR and an +89 NPS. I led external marketing and partner enablement for TGC's Trust and Safety program — a real-time, context-aware ML moderation platform — and managed a 170-person cross-functional team to produce SkyFest, an industry-first hybrid event spanning digital streaming, in-game content, and international activations across China, Japan, the US, and South Korea, generating 236M+ unique media views.

Dates: April 2022 – March 2024

As Director of Programming at Mischief Management, I led the post-pandemic revival of LeakyCon and BroadwayCon, using AI/ML-augmented marketing automation and consumer segmentation to grow ticket sales 56% YoY and drive $10M+ in additional ARR. I also secured flagship talent and brand partnerships that earned national media coverage in The New York Times, Variety, People Magazine, and CBS.

Dates: February 2019 – January 2021 / January 2021 – December 2021

At Fandom, I held two successive director roles. As Director of Asian Media, I founded and scaled the company's Anime/Asian Media vertical from the ground up — building a 20-person team, growing the unit to 150M+ users, and executing a $145M+ partnership portfolio with Nintendo, Viz Media, and Shueisha across international events like Tokyo Game Show, ComiKet, and Jump Festa. I also co-launched the Fandomatic platform with DanAds, delivering custom developer solutions including live translation, audio integrations, and web-based manga experiences.

Promoted to Director of Community Development, I then led the rollout of the Unified Community Platform — a MediaWiki-based system serving 249M users, 639M monthly sessions, and 2.4B monthly pageviews across hundreds of thousands of wikis. I drove backend quality initiatives across Fandom's AWS stack, rewrote legacy Java, Scala, and Kotlin services, architected the FanDNA data lake, and built a Python-based compliance system covering COPPA, CPPA, and GDPR. I also built and directed a 32-person team spanning technical evangelism, product marketing, and platform enablement.

Dates: May 2013 – February 2019

At Amazon, I held two roles over nearly six years. As Senior Content Manager, I managed a $69M+ portfolio across 1,500+ properties, growing the contributor base to 1.3M+ across 6.2M articles and building Python-powered market segmentation tools to drive activation in emerging content verticals.

Transitioning to Partnership Analyst, I executed a $40M+ B2C marketing portfolio with partners including Warner Bros., Apple, Disney, and Sony, and co-developed Twitch Rivals — an eSports brand that generated $18M+ ARR through sponsorships and IP tie-ins. I also built behavioral segmentation tools in Python and PHP that optimized marketing spend by 25%.