Chris Long
Manager, Strategic Finance
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Li is a software engineer and serial founder with eight years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and blockchain infrastructure from San Francisco. He founded Ava Protocol to enable privacy-preserving, event-driven cross-chain automation and previously launched high-volume dApps at Block.one and prediction markets on Ethereum, blending low-level smart contract work with product-driven engineering. Earlier roles at Microsoft and multiple startups show deep backend and systems expertise (C#, C/C++, SQL) along with front-end chops (JavaScript, HTML) and operational experience running services at global scale. An active investor in Polkadot and NuCypher, he combines technical depth with early-stage crypto conviction and a track record of turning ideas into revenue-generating products. Notably, his projects span consumer marketplaces to privacy-focused blockchain primitives, revealing a pragmatic founder who moves quickly from prototype to production.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Commerce, Bachelor of Science, Commerce at University of VirginiaBachelor of Science, Commerce, Bachelor of Science, Commerce at McIntire School of Commerce
Github Skills (34)
data-quality10
egress10
architecture10
data-platform10
gobblin10
postgresql9
data-governance9
data-stream9
data-management9
ingress9
sql9
database9
data-ingestion9
data-catalog9
metadata-management9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chris9692/data-integration-library
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
The Data Integration Library project provides a library of generic components based on a multi-stage architecture for data ingress and egress.
Contributions:218 pushes in 1 year 3 months
servicenowdata-streamdata-platformdata-managementdata-governance
linkedin/data-integration-library
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
The Data Integration Library project provides a library of generic components based on a multi-stage architecture for data ingress and egress.
Contributions:13 reviews, 140 commits, 102 PRs in 1 year 3 months
data-streamdata-catalogdata-platformdata-managementdata-quality
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