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Christopher C.

Email & lifecycle marketing | 8x Braze Certified

Specializing in execution of email and multi-channel lifecycle programs for brands like Calendly, Apollo, and PlugShare. I work comfortably alongside product, data, and engineering teams to move lifecycle programs forward. Featured project: I built a custom Cursor skill, using Braze's MCP server and API, that pulled every email across 100+ Braze Canvases — the client's entire lifecycle program — and rebuilt them for a company-wide rebrand on a new modular design system built around Content Blocks and Liquid personalization. The skill generated the 500+ rebranded templates and pushed them back into Braze, leaving only final human QA. Work that might otherwise have gone to an agency stayed in house. What I bring: • Lifecycle program builds across onboarding, activation, and retention — including welcome series, feature adoption, and reengagement • Braze expertise, with enough context on the upstream stack (Braze SDKs, Segment, HighTouch, warehouses) to troubleshoot data issues with the teams that own them • AI-assisted marketing ops: custom tools built with Claude Code and Cursor utilizing Braze's MCP server and APIs for bulk builds, audits, QA, etc. • Email development with HTML + CSS, plus the inbox rendering knowledge to QA what AI and drag-and-drop builders produce — Outlook, dark mode, mobile, Gmail clipping • Personalization and dynamic content via Liquid with Context variables, Content Blocks, Catalogs, and Connected Content • Canvas design with experiment paths and holdout testing to measure what actually worked • Segmentation with custom events & properties, attributes, and Query Builder (SQL) • Data operations in Braze via webhooks and User Update steps • Multi-channel builds: push, in-app messages, SMS, and Content Cards Why hire me over other freelancers? I promise you: ✅ Reliability. I do what I say I'm going to do — on time and as expected. ✅ Communication. You'll always know where things stand — status, blockers, and what I need from you. ✅ Ownership. I think about the broader business objective, not just the ticket (re: the principal-agent problem). ✅ Braze expertise. My platform of choice since 2021, Marketer and Technical Architect Certified. You won't be paying me to learn it on your instance. I work best embedded with a team long-term, usually 10-15 hours a week, with flexibility to scale up during launches, migrations, and busy periods. Many of my client relationships span multiple years.

🇺🇸Littleton, United States$115/hr100% JSS4.99 (72)Since Aug 2015

Earnings and projects

MRR
$14k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#571 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#285 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$12k

Last 6 months: $83k

World#945 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#456 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$637k

Billed in all: $662k

World#1,631 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#623 / 62.1k
Per project
$7.3k

$28k in the last 6 months

World#23,110 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#3,820 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
3
0% fixed100% hourly
World#66,479 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#8,998 / 62.1k
Projects in all
87

Across 103 contracts

23% fixed77% hourly
World#33,169 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#5,213 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$662k+$12.1k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$650k$660k$670kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: #1 in 3 skills of 13

Rarest: top 0.08% in Customer Relationship Management, of 5,121. Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. 1Amplitude68 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 1%
  2. 1Iterable36 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 3%
  3. 1Heap6 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 17%
  4. 2Marketing Campaign Setup & Implementation416 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #2Top 0.48%
  5. 2Braze64 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #2Top 3%
  6. 3Marketing Automation Strategy634 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #3Top 0.47%
  7. 3Campaign Reporting500 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #2Top 0.60%
  8. 3Email Template Development488 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #3Top 0.61%