Chris Crane is a product and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling developer-focused platforms and data infrastructure. As Co-Founder and CPO at Fiveonefour he’s focused on improving developer experiences for the data and analytics stack after leading product teams through acquisition at Nike and earlier exits at Datalogue and Sysdig. He has repeatedly taken early-stage products to market, grown teams from single digits to hundreds, and closed multi-million dollar enterprise deals while securing venture financing. Comfortable wearing many hats, Chris has led product, design, sales, and operations functions and built internal communities of practice to raise the craft of technical product management. Based in Oakland, he also advises and invests in developer tooling startups, bringing both operator and investor perspectives to early-stage companies. A former software engineer with a Yale electrical engineering background, he blends hands-on technical intuition with strategic product leadership.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Yale University
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