Summary
Chris Kulinski is an Associate Vice President of Architecture at Cox Automotive with 11+ years in leadership roles building digital retail commerce across Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Dealer.com and Dealertrack. He architects end-to-end solutions for F&I, registration & title, ecommerce and digital retailing, translating complex dealer and consumer workflows into scalable platforms. Previously he led cloud strategy, AI/ML prototyping and AWS adoption, bringing a pragmatic blend of innovation and operational rigor to large-scale migrations. Chris began his career as a software and systems engineer and has grown through enterprise architecture roles during periods of rapid organic and acquisitive growth, giving him deep institutional knowledge of the auto retail stack. Based in Atlanta and educated in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, he pairs strategic vision with hands-on technical grounding and a knack for making emergent tech like AI/ML production-ready.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Pennsylvania