Chris Nelson
Software Engineering Manager at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Nelson is a software engineering manager with nine years of experience who leads teams building scalable AWS-native services to measure, report, and recommend abatements for Amazon’s carbon footprint. He blends a rare cross-disciplinary background in architecture and AR/VR with hands-on cloud engineering, having transitioned from project architect and tech lead at Gensler to sustainability engineering at Amazon. Chris is skilled at aligning product, program, and science stakeholders to turn climate goals into deliverable roadmaps while staffing and prioritizing for high-impact outcomes. He experiments broadly—from AR/VR, games, and robotics to networking—bringing a maker’s curiosity to production systems. Based in Seattle, he pairs formal training in computer science and architecture with practical leadership in large-scale sustainability tech. A practical innovator, he focuses on measurable abatements and building core services that make corporate climate commitments auditable and actionable.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Oregon State UniversityAR Nano Degree, Computer Science, AR Nano Degree, Computer Science at UdacityMaster of Architecture (M.Arch.), Architecture, Master of Architecture (M.Arch.), Architecture at North Dakota State University
Github Skills (2)
arcade2
android1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
crisischris/ARwayfinding
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
crisischris/MeasureMe
Feb 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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