Chris Latko
Staff Data Engineer
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Latko is a seasoned technology leader and data engineering executive based in Mountain View, CA, currently serving as Staff Data Engineer at General Motors, where he is building the next generation of data streaming platforms and GenAI solutions for large-scale datasets. With 25+ years in tech across startups and Fortune 500s in the US and Japan, he has held CTO and senior engineering roles at Ashley Associates, Boxfish, and MiiM, and contributed to platform evolution at Banjo. He earned two patents while moving Banjo’s architecture to a JVM-based streaming framework and has delivered systems that generated significant revenue for clients, including more than $15 million for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and scalable CMS/tools deployed to Amway distributors. His leadership spans implementing microservice architectures inspired by Netflix, Square, and Uber, leading multi-year engineering programs, and aligning product roadmaps with business goals. He is a technical contributor and reviewer for the Packt Publishing project on JavaScript Promises Essentials, reflecting ongoing engagement with the broader developer community. An Indiana University Bloomington alum with a double major in Business Economics and Japanese Language and Literature, his global perspective informs scalable, cross-border software solutions.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Business Economics, BS, Business Economics at Indiana University BloomingtonCertificate, Japanese Language, Certificate, Japanese Language at Tokyo International University
Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (119)
inter-process-communication10
twurl10
twitter-api10
twitter9
rest9
http-client9
slf4j9
rest-api9
jax-rs9
java9
to-json9
kubeless9
scheme9
cli8
pipeline8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
phc-health/openjdk-runtime
Sep 2021 - Mar 2023
PHC fork of GoogleCloudPlatform/openjdk-runtime
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
gcpdocker-imageapp-enginegooglegoogle-cloud-platform
clatko/random-crud
Apr 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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