Summary
Chris Okonkwo is an enterprise software engineer and architect with a decade of experience building cloud-native, event-driven systems for banking, capital markets, eHR and e-commerce. He has led large-scale Azure data estates, AI-enabled digital financial health products serving up to 1.5M daily users, and migrations to fraud-management AI platforms while balancing security, cost and operational resilience. A practiced communicator and servant leader, he coaches distributed DevOps teams and translates complex technical constraints into actionable business architecture and process improvements. His background includes hands-on DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and incident response that cut costs and avoided multi‑million dollar impacts for enterprise clients. A former founder and quantitative developer, he brings entrepreneurial instincts and data-driven analysis to product and operational decisions. Based in Prosper, Texas, he recently returned from supporting family abroad and is focused on applying his cross-domain systems thinking to scalable, secure financial and benefits platforms.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Bachelors, Business Administration, Management and Operations at The University of Texas at Dallas