Chris Groer
Chief Product Officer at Fastbreak.ai
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Groer is a Chief Product Officer and applied mathematics PhD with 16 years of experience translating discrete optimization and high-performance cloud computing into production products for routing, scheduling, and analytics. He has led routing and optimization efforts at scale—most recently founding product at Fastbreak.ai after driving routing strategy at Salesforce and MapAnything—bringing domain depth in rich vehicle routing and complex sports scheduling. His background spans government labs and defense research to enterprise R&D, giving him uncommon fluency in both algorithm design and operational deployment. Known for squeezing performance out of hard combinatorial problems, he combines research rigor from Oak Ridge and a PhD in applied math with practical product leadership. Based in Knoxville, Tennessee, he pairs technical authorship and hands-on algorithm development with a knack for turning mathematical models into usable, high-throughput cloud services. An early career as a touring tennis player hints at the competitive drive and discipline he brings to solving knotty optimization challenges.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Math, MA, Math at University of GeorgiaThe University of Maryland, College ParkBA, Math, Economics, BA, Math, Economics at Vanderbilt University
German
Github Skills (4)
decomposition9
graph6
optimization6
dynamic-programming6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
coin-or/VRPH
Apr 2010 - Jul 2011
Contributions:6 commits in 1 year 3 months
bdsullivan/INDDGO
May 2012 - Aug 2013
Integrated Network Decomposition & Dynamic programming for Graph Optimization problems
Contributions:22 commits in 1 year 3 months
decompositionintegratedproblemsoptimizationgraph-optimization
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