Summary
Chris Kleban is a product and engineering leader with 11+ years building hyperscale cloud and networking platforms, currently leading AI GPU infrastructure at Google Cloud where he scaled offerings from 0 to multi-billion-dollar ARR. He specializes in 0→1 platform builds and distributed systems that power massive ML training and inference across hundreds of thousands of accelerators, while serving as a technical SME to executives and top AI customers. His background includes running AWS’s global backbone networking and architecting early container and private cloud platforms, giving him rare end-to-end insight across compute, networking, and orchestration layers. Known for turning deep technical complexity into practical, scalable products, he leads cross-functional teams of PMs, engineers, and SREs to deliver production-grade systems at hyperscale. Based in Seattle, he brings a network-engineering pedigree dating back to the late 1990s, which informs his pragmatic approach to reliability and performance.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer