Chris Demwell
CTO at Stealth Startup
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Demwell is a seasoned technology leader and systems engineer with 11+ years building and scaling cloud-native products and engineering organizations, currently serving as CTO of a stealth startup in Vancouver. He has repeatedly translated product strategy into technical vision and hypergrown teams—from single engineers into multi-team organizations—while improving scalability, resilience, and operational rigor. As a devops evangelist with deep hands-on experience in cloud architecture, he has led production infrastructure, monitoring, and automation at companies from startups to enterprise (Indicee/D&B, Treasure Data, Segment, Shortcut). Chris blends people-first leadership and technical mentorship, cultivating collaborative, metrics-driven teams that value ownership, empathy, and continuous improvement. He’s pragmatic about trade-offs, known for reducing operational friction (e.g., introducing reproducible virtual dev/test environments and Ansible/Boto-driven deployments) and for pulling engineers into cohesive, high-impact groups. Based in Vancouver with an honours degree in computing science from Simon Fraser University, he remains an avid learner who keeps teams current with evolving engineering practices.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of science (honours) computing science, Bachelor of science (honours) computing science at Simon Fraser University
English, French, Български
Github Skills (17)
shortcut10
api9
javascript7
freenode7
clubhouse4
exporter3
chrome-extension2
alt2
twitter2
nodejs2
devops2
chrome2
python1
abstraction1
hubspot-api1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cdemwell/vandevops
Aug 2014 - Oct 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 2 months
freenodeprofessionalsvancouverdevops
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