Summary
Chris Gianelle is a technology leader with 25+ years of hands-on experience who currently shapes Data and AI architecture at CipherHealth, blending embedded-systems roots with cloud-native, data, and AI expertise. He has led large-scale migrations to GCP and Kubernetes, delivered multi-hundred-thousand-dollar annual cost savings, and architected RAG, vector search, and agentic AI systems using Vertex AI, Gemini, and MongoDB Atlas. Known for systems thinking, he repeatedly reduces operational complexity—rearchitecting databases to eliminate outages, cutting Snowflake costs by 21%, and introducing chaos engineering to improve resilience. Chris also scales engineering organizations, mentoring and promoting senior talent while driving cross-functional initiatives from DevOps to product-facing conversational AI. Based in Braselton, GA, he excels at translating business problems into pragmatic technical leverage points that deliver measurable impact.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at Penn State University
MSWENG Software Engineering, MSWENG Software Engineering at Penn State Great Valley