Chris Laws
Chief Commercial Officer at Rhino Federated Computing
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Laws is a commercial and operations leader with 14 years of experience scaling data-driven businesses and building go-to-market, sales, customer success, and partnership functions—currently evangelizing federated and edge computing as CCO at Rhino Federated Computing. He combines a McKinsey strategy background with hands-on operational leadership across startups and Fortune 100s (Wayfair, Liberty Mutual, Healthy.io), repeatedly translating product and analytics into measurable revenue and operational improvements. At Rhino he helped evolve the company from VP of Operations to COO and now CCO, focusing on unlocking siloed data for AI without compromising privacy or sovereignty. Unusually for a senior commercial executive, he has contributed to open-source systems-level projects (pyzmq and czmq), driving security and socket-level improvements that reflect deep technical literacy. He holds an MBA from Chicago Booth and a BA from Boston College, blending rigorous business strategy with technical curiosity and executional grit.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Economics Finance Management, MBA Economics Finance Management at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessBA Philosophy Sociology, BA Philosophy Sociology at Boston College
Spanish
Github Skills (14)
c1710
socket-io10
authentication10
user-authentication10
socket10
zeromq10
c1110
python10
cython10
security10
concurrency9
testing8
api-design8
performance-optimization7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zeromq/pyzmq
Aug 2014 - Jul 2017
PyZMQ: Python bindings for zeromq
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:2 commits, 1 PR in 3 years
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the implementation of security features within the PyZMQ library. Their work included adding options for packet priority (TOS), and enhancing authentication mechanisms. Furthermore, the user refactored and updated authentication logic, and made improvements to the overall security and usability of the library by addressing code comments.
pythonzeromqpython-bindingspyzmqcython
zeromq/czmq
Aug 2013 - Apr 2014
High-level C binding for ØMQ
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the core functionality and internal workings of the czmq library. Their work involved fixing bugs, such as ensuring `zmsg_load` correctly handles errors and returns NULL when unable to load data. They also added features like the `zmonitor` for socket event monitoring and incorporated the `ZMQ_TOS` socket option. Furthermore, the user addressed platform-specific compatibility issues and refactored the internal `zloop` module, adding the ability to cancel timers by identifier.
multiplexerhigh-levelgossipbinding
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