Chris Joakim
Principal AI Architect at 3Cloud
North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolChris Joakim is a Principal AI Architect based in North Carolina with 11 years focused on Azure cloud, Data & AI, and NoSQL/CosmosDB, currently leading AI architecture at 3Cloud after a senior technical specialist and Global Black Belt tenure at Microsoft. He combines deep hands-on experience building cloud-native data platforms and developer-facing solutions with earlier CTO and founder roles, giving him rare perspective across product, architecture, and delivery. Known for translating complex distributed database and AI requirements into pragmatic, scalable designs, he’s equally comfortable advising on app modernization, CosmosDB tuning, and operationalizing ML in Azure. A business-educated technologist with roots in web development and long-standing regional leadership, he blends technical rigor with an eye for practical, customer-focused outcomes—often surfacing optimizations that save cost and improve latency in production systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Business Administration & Economics, BS Business Administration & Economics at Rollins College
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Github Skills (69)
azure-cosmos-db10
azure10
microsoft-azure9
microsoft9
npm9
nrwl-nx9
nodejs9
sdk8
javascript8
package-manager8
stream-analytics8
typescript8
dependency-manager8
cosmosdb7
stream7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cjoakim/azure-cosmosdb-hackathon
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
A CosmosDB Hackathon
Contributions:16 PRs, 225 pushes, 7 branches in 7 months
azure-cosmos-dbcosmos-dbcosmosdb
cjoakim/azure-cosmosdb-synapse-link
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:311 commits, 279 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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