Summary
Chris Keyser is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of experience leading architecture and development across startups, large enterprises, consulting firms, and the US Navy. He has guided cloud and decision-automation platforms at Nextmv and AWS, led devops and private-SaaS efforts at Auth0, and shaped partner integrations for Alexa and big data at Amazon and Microsoft. Known for converting complex business problems into pragmatic technical designs, he blends hands-on implementation (from embedded real-time systems to serverless TypeScript services) with system-wide architectural thinking. Chris has a track record of building consensus with large partners, driving scalability and failover improvements, and even holds a patent related to efficient Redshift uploads. Rapid to learn new technologies, he comfortably moves between IC and leadership roles and often surfaces non-obvious tradeoffs in distributed and multi-tenant systems.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science History, BA Computer Science History at Dartmouth College