{"691430":{"#nid":"691430","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Entrepreneur Endows Scholarship to Support Computing Students \u0027Who Need It the Most\u0027","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristian Battaglia\u003C\/strong\u003E (CS 2017) has endowed a need-based scholarship in the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI wanted to help students,\u201d he said, \u201cthe ones who need it the most.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cdbattags\/\u0022\u003EBattaglia\u003C\/a\u003E serves as VP of Engineering for Sysdyne, a cloud-native software platform for the construction materials industry \u2013 concrete, asphalt, gravel. He calls it \u201cSweaty SaaS.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s the ugly industries that are my bread and butter now.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has a long history of entrepreneurship. During a Georgia Tech study-abroad program in Barcelona, he crossed paths with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/oscarpierremi\/\u0022\u003EOscar Pierre\u003C\/a\u003E (AE 2014), joining him on the ground floor of what became Glovo, now one of Europe\u2019s largest delivery platforms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBack in Atlanta, Battaglia joined a team for the Inventure Prize competition that served as the basis for FIXD, which makes a device that decodes check-engine lights for drivers. He helped launch the company, serving as a founding engineer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe later co-founded Triple Axle, a routing platform for the specialty trucking industry, before joining Slabstack \u2013 a CRM and pricing platform for concrete, aggregate, and asphalt producers \u2013 as a founder and CTO. Sysdyne acquired Slabstack in December 2025.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen he was at Tech, Battaglia did \u201ca little of everything\u201d \u2013 lacrosse, Phi Delta Theta, a co-op at GTRI, study abroad in Barcelona. He started in 2012 and graduated in December 2017, having taken time along the way to work with startups and travel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe says Tech\u2019s emphasis on applied computing \u2013 not just computer science theory \u2013 prepared him well for a career spent building real products in unglamorous industries. \u201cIt\u2019s about what you do with the skills, not the skills themselves,\u201d he said. The scholarship, he adds, was always going to be for the College of Computing. \u201cI just wanted to make sure it was going to the right place.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor me, it was like my playground,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m so thankful I got exposed to so many different things.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChristian Battaglia is a 2017 computer science alumnus who credits his entrepreneurial success to his experience at Georgia Tech. He recently endowed a need-based scholarship in the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Christian Battaglia is a 2017 computer science alumnus who credits his entrepreneurial success to his experience at Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2026-08-04 17:00:19","changed_gmt":"2026-08-04 17:05:34","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"664620":{"id":"664620","type":"image","title":"ATL Skyline Reflected in Binary Bridge","body":null,"created":"1673381152","gmt_created":"2023-01-10 20:05:52","changed":"1673381152","gmt_changed":"2023-01-10 20:05:52","alt":"ATL skyline reflected in Binary Bridge","file":{"fid":"251459","name":"ATL Skyline Reflection-Binary Bridge.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ATL%20Skyline%20Reflection-Binary%20Bridge.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ATL%20Skyline%20Reflection-Binary%20Bridge.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":50853,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ATL%20Skyline%20Reflection-Binary%20Bridge.jpeg?itok=V4IM1dF8"}},"680778":{"id":"680778","type":"image","title":"GT-alumnus-christian-battaglia-CS2017.png","body":null,"created":"1785862852","gmt_created":"2026-08-04 17:00:52","changed":"1785862852","gmt_changed":"2026-08-04 17:00:52","alt":"Photo portrait of GT alumnus Christian Battaglia","file":{"fid":"265095","name":"GT-alumnus-christian-battaglia-CS2017.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/04\/GT-alumnus-christian-battaglia-CS2017.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/04\/GT-alumnus-christian-battaglia-CS2017.png","mime":"image\/png","size":703011,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/08\/04\/GT-alumnus-christian-battaglia-CS2017.png?itok=8ccZHXPo"}}},"media_ids":["664620","680778"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"193234","name":"Campaign Stories"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnn Claycombe\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Eclaycombe@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}