Summary
Chris Getsfred is a Senior Director of Enterprise AI and seasoned engineering leader based in Omaha with a two-decade track record of turning ambitious platform transformations into reliable, customer-facing systems. He has led large teams through full-stack migrations and cultural shifts—most notably replacing an entire platform stack in a year (Kubernetes, SSO, database migration) while driving a move from reactive ops to SRE practices with SLOs and observability. Comfortable at the intersection of AI and production engineering, he has championed practical AI adoption, building tools that cut issue analysis time and demonstrated measurable value to ops and product teams. Chris blends hands-on architecture skills with people-first leadership inspired by Sinek and Marquet, favoring context over tickets and psychological safety over silos. An educator-turned-executive, he quietly leverages teaching experience to coach engineers and create high-performing, autonomous teams that enjoy building “cool stuff” that changes lives.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Associates, Computer and Network Technologies, Associates, Computer and Network Technologies at Vatterott College
English