Chris Maki is a Principal Software Engineer based in Hillsboro, Oregon with over a decade of experience building scalable systems and leading engineering organizations. He has a strong track record as a founder and technical leader—having launched startups and led architecture and mobile strategy at companies like Open English and Overstock.com—bridging product, operations, and continuous deployment at scale. At Open English he drove a microservices substrate and CD pipeline that deployed thousands of applications, and at Overstock he boosted mobile revenue more than fourfold while owning mobile direction. Now at Docker, he focuses on cloud-native platform engineering informed by deep experience across Java, CI/CD, and distributed architectures. Known for growing teams rapidly and codifying engineering standards, he blends hands-on implementation with strategic leadership and a penchant for building reusable substrates and tooling.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Confederation College
Contributions:5 releases, 9 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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Chris Maki - Principal Software Engineer at Docker, Inc