Chris Frost
Software Engineer at Stellar Development Foundation
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Frost is a Senior Staff software engineer and technical leader with 16 years building and scaling large-scale distributed systems, storage, and developer platforms. He helped grow Samsara from a 10-person startup into a 3,000+ employee public company, guiding architecture for a ~15-team Platform org and driving reliability, telemetry, and GraphQL/ API scaling through >10× load growth. Earlier he was an early Spanner engineer at Google, owning backup/restore and making the system resilient to regional outages while contributing to award-winning research. His PhD work at UCLA produced influential file-system consistency research (BPFS, Featherstitch) that still receives impact recognition, reflecting a rare blend of deep systems research and production rigor. Chris is equally comfortable setting org-wide technical direction and rolling up his sleeves on critical incidents and hands-on systems work. Based in San Francisco, he combines strong mentorship and process design with an engineer-first approach to enable complex new product lines and long-term platform health.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los AngelesBS, Computer Science, Mathematics, BS, Computer Science, Mathematics at University of Virginia
Github Skills (21)
realtime10
peach10
byte10
runner10
golang9
go9
graphql9
interpreter8
stock8
programming-language8
amazon7
go-framework7
cli7
compiler6
odin6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ucla-readable/bpfs
Jan 2010 - Sep 2010
Byte-Addressable File System
Contributions:249 commits, 1 branch in 8 months
file-systembyteaddressable
samsarahq/thunder
Mar 2017 - Aug 2021
⚡️ A Go framework for rapidly building powerful graphql services
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 5 months
golangrealtimego-frameworkthundergraphql
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