Summary
Chris Lies is a Sr. Solutions Architect with a decade of experience translating complex enterprise needs into cloud, SaaS, and data center architectures that drive measurable business outcomes. He has partnered with sales and executive teams at Twilio, Dell EMC, NetApp and multiple startups to lead technical discovery, design end-to-end solutions, and close seven-figure deals while building reusable demos and POCs adopted company-wide. Chris combines deep hands-on experience modernizing infrastructure—VMware, VCF, NVMe/TCP, HCI and AWS microservices—with a consultative approach that surfaces business drivers and quantifies value. He excels at moving fluidly between C-suite conversations and detailed technical design, owning the lifecycle from discovery through deal close. Based in Charlotte, he’s known for turning competitive differentiation into tangible pipeline wins and for mentoring teams to sustain operational excellence.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Information Science, Bachelor of Science Information Science at University of Pittsburgh