End-to-end experience working with customers, designing solutions and implementing software in Erlang/Ruby/C#/Common Lisp/C++/Java. Founding engineer on Amazon's EC2 "Elastic Compute Cloud" Inventor on several patents in the areas of cloud computing, infrastructure automation, internet routing, VM/runtime hosting, and content delivery. Specialties: Cloud Computing Distributed Software Development IP Networking

Senior Principal Engineer @ From September 2015 to Present (2 months) Greater Seattle AreaVP of Operations @ From March 2014 to April 2015 (1 year 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaChief Technical Officer @ Led engineering, operations, support and documentation for 60+ people working to ship Chef, the highly successful configuration management product. From January 2011 to December 2013 (3 years) Greater Seattle AreaVice President of Engineering @ Led engineering, operations, support and documentation for 60+ people working to ship Chef, the highly successful configuration management product. From 2009 to January 2011 (2 years) Greater Seattle AreaDirector of Engineering @ Managed a team of ~20 Software Design Engineers, Program Managers, Systems Engineers and Software Design Engineers in Test working on a new infrastructure management project to reduce latency in compute and content delivery to Microsoft web properties worldwide. From March 2007 to February 2009 (2 years) Senior Software Development Lead @ I returned to the US as Senior Program Manager in Microsoft's Global Foundation Services division, then took over development and team building responsibilities for a new infrastructure software project. From February 2007 to February 2009 (2 years 1 month) Software Development Engineer / Mgr @ Founding member, architect and lead developer for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. I participated in all aspects of software development, system architecture and network design on the industry's first public computing cloud. From March 2004 to February 2007 (3 years) Program Manager @ Program Manager responsible for several aspects of the Common Language Runtime, including integration into Microsoft SQL Server (and hosting in other applications), and the 64-bit runtime. Co-inventor on CLR Hosting patent. From 2001 to 2004 (3 years) Software Development Manager @ Responsible for writing and maintaining billing and network management software. Co-inventor of 2 patents in routing optimization. From 1999 to 2001 (2 years) Software Development Manager @ From 1999 to 2001 (2 years) 2LT @ From 1991 to 1993 (2 years)

BSEE, Electrical Engineering, French Literature @ Gonzaga University From 1986 to 1991 Billings West High School Christopher Brown is skilled in: Cloud Computing, IP Networking, Distributed Development, Distributed Systems, EC2, Amazon EC2, Software Design, System Architecture, Computers, Software Development, IP, Scalability, Software Engineering, Security, Open Source, PaaS, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Web Services..., Big Data, Integration, Enterprise Software, Linux, Systems Engineering, Agile Methodologies, Cthulhu Summoning, Email, MS-DOS, UFC, IRC, Internet Explorer, Windows Azure, Apache, Testing, High Availability, Web Applications, Scrum, Role Playing Games, Cycling, Emacs Lisp, Hadoop, Python, Test Driven Development, Zebra, Field Hockey, VMware, Leather Jackets, Ksh, Ruby on Rails, SaaS