About Chris
- 20+ years experience shipping products & services
- Large company experience
- Microsoft, Motorola
- As well as early stage startups
- Viathan, SharedInk, Motricity, Nuiku, Arivale, Kelsus
- Large company experience
- Proven track record of forming and leading teams with strong culture and excellent retention
- Hands-on technologist with over 1 million lines of code written
3x Founder
- Viathan - Acquired by Dantz/EMC
- $24 million VC raised
- Investors included:
- Softbank (led series B)
- Arch Venture Partners (led series A)
- Madrona Venture Group (led seed)
- Venture Law Group
- SharedInk - Acquired by Premier Press
- Growl
- Pitch deck
- Note: Target audience is for strategic partners, not investors
- Pitch deck
Recognized Technology Expert
- Subject Matter Expert for AWS
- Invited as subject matter expert for 4 in-person workshops and 1 online workshop with the purpose of developing certification exam content
- June 2018: San Francisco
- February 2019: Phoenix
- October 2019: Denver
- October 2021: Herdon, VA
- Invited as subject matter expert for 4 in-person workshops and 1 online workshop with the purpose of developing certification exam content
- O'Reilly contributing author
- Co-host of Mobycast
- Long running weekly podcast that dives deep on topics related to building cloud-native software
- Awarded 6 patents for work in highly scalable data systems
- Upstart - thoughts on building software and startups
Growl Technology
- Over 2.5 years in research and development
- Strengths / differentiators
- Innovative technology built from the ground-up using world-class software development practices
- Highly scalable platform using cloud-native technologies
- Modular design, making it easy to build new features
- All functionality exposed via well-designed, REST-based APIs
- Tech stack
- API microservices: Node.js 16.x, Express 4.x
- Daemons: Node.js 16.x
- Frontend app: Next.js 12.x, React
- Analytics processing: Python
- Built using cloud-native technologies
- All microservices, daemons, and apps are containerized using Docker and orchestrated via ECS
- AWS services leveraged include:
- ECS, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, S3, CloudFront, SES, Lambda, CloudWatch, Kinesis Firehose, RDS, Athena, Route 53, ALB, Parameter Store, KMS