Chris Carrier is a hands-on technical leader and founder with 15 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems, and high-performing engineering teams from Detroit. He combines day-one delivery with long-term strategy—containerizing legacy apps, designing Terraform-driven EKS deployments, and implementing CI/CD with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD to cut deployment time and cloud spend significantly. Chris has driven measurable outcomes across startups and enterprise clients, from reducing infrastructure costs by over 40% and improving API performance by 30% to eliminating security-driven revenue loss of $250k annually and achieving SOC2 readiness. Comfortable in the data layer as well—he led Python ETL initiatives to stop data drift and increased monitoring coverage by 80% using Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana Cloud. Equally at home in a data center wiring up Kubernetes nodes or in the boardroom shaping technical strategy, he’s repeatedly translated technical improvements into funding wins and large customer deals.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at University of Virginia - School of Engineering Charlottesville VA
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