chris m
Machine Learning Engineer
Summary
🤩
RockstarChris McFadden is a pragmatic CTO with 8+ years in senior technology leadership and a 20+ year engineering career footprint, known for scaling PE-backed SaaS from roughly $20M to $100M+ ARR through a mix of organic growth and acquisitions. He builds globally distributed engineering organizations and unified platform strategies that prioritize reliability, predictability, and margin-conscious cloud spend, having led multi-product consolidations that improved time-to-value and reduced failure demand. Chris blends hands-on systems thinking—he’s an enthusiast of Rust, robotics, and high-reliability architectures—with executive rigor, establishing SLO-driven governance, AI platforms, and finance-aligned tech cost controls. Comfortable with internet-scale workloads and post-acquisition integrations, he has operated platforms at billion-message volumes and driven transitions from single-tenant to multi-tenant SaaS at enterprise scale. Based in Silver Spring, MD, he also contributes to academic industry collaboration as an external advisory board member at George Mason University.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (200)
mapbox-gl10
std10
mnist10
scientific-computing10
cuda-toolkit10
rust10
mbtiles10
histogram10
boxplot10
backpropagation10
algorithms10
mapbox-gl-js10
mapbox-vector-tile10
leaflet10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
quietlychris/site
Jun 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:20 PRs, 69 pushes, 21 branches in 3 years 9 months
rust-ml/book
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
The Rust Machine Learning Book
Contributions:12 reviews, 13 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 9 months
rustmachine-learning-bookmachine-learning
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.