Chris Barrantes
Senior Director Engineering, CTO Office at Walgreens
Albany, New York Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolChris Barrantes is a seasoned technology executive with 25+ years driving enterprise platform transformation, cloud modernization, and data/ML architecture across healthcare, retail, and financial services. Currently Senior Director of Engineering in Walgreens’ CTO Office, he blends hands-on AWS migration and cloud-native application experience with strategic leadership of large IT portfolios and transformation programs. His background includes building MLOps pipelines, NLP automation for electronic health records, and modern data architectures at CDPHP, as well as cloud and IoT solution work at GE Global Research. An MBA-trained technologist who started in infrastructure and security roles at JPMorgan Chase, he brings a rare mix of operational rigor, architecture-first thinking, and pragmatic delivery focus. Notably, he has routinely translated complex regulated-domain requirements into scalable, auditable platforms that balance innovation with compliance.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University at AlbanyMBA Executive MBA Program, MBA Executive MBA Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (13)
aws-codepipeline8
amazon7
endpoints7
blue-green-deployment7
aws-cloudformation6
aws5
amazon-sagemaker5
sagemaker4
machine-learning3
data-science3
devops2
mlops1
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chrisbarrantes/github-for-developers-7
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 4 branches in 10 days
2BoldlyCode/paper-datatable
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
materialmaterial-designdata-table
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