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Top SchoolChris Christensen is a Network Planning Manager with 16 years of experience designing and operationalizing reliable, high-performance infrastructure for large-scale streaming and CDN platforms. He currently leads network planning at Disney Streaming Services, applying data-driven analysis to deliver efficient integrations and resilient architectures. Previously he built and led Storage and Customer Reliability Engineering teams at Limelight Networks, establishing SLIs/SLOs and SRE practices to quantify and improve service health. Comfortable bridging hands-on engineering, people leadership, and measurable reliability work, he also has an academic background in software engineering from Southern Methodist University and early experience teaching C# and GUI development. Less obvious: his career blends deep operational rigor with a history of building teams and measurement frameworks that turn subjective reliability worries into objective, actionable metrics.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS Software Engineering, Computer Science, MS Software Engineering, Computer Science at Southern Methodist University