Chris Lloyd is a principal software engineer and seasoned architectural leader with over two decades of experience building scalable, service-oriented systems and leading teams at major tech companies. He has driven cloud and distributed database architectures at Adobe—helping power Adobe Firefly and Experience Cloud—and now works on AI-enabled services within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. Comfortable from core platform design to cloud inference services, he blends deep systems thinking (event sourcing, CQRS, schema evolution) with practical delivery at internet scale. Based in Washington, he pairs hands-on Scala development and team leadership with an offbeat interest in expressive electronic music controllers, reflecting a maker’s curiosity beyond purely enterprise concerns.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Economics Economics, B.A. Economics Economics at University of Colorado Boulder
Computer Science, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Chris Lloyd - Principle Software Engineer at Microsoft