Chris Radcliff is a seasoned software development manager and hands-on engineer with 14+ years building high-throughput data systems and cloud infrastructure for aerospace and web-scale products. He has led teams at Blue Origin, Return Path, and startups, designing distributed pipelines and high-volume REST APIs that process terabytes of engineering and mission data while mentoring engineers and shaping hiring and capacity planning. Comfortable diving into code (Python, Ruby, Perl) and operationalizing big-data stacks (Kafka, Hadoop, Storm) in AWS, he blends pragmatic engineering with people leadership to deliver production-hardened systems. A longtime organizer and community-builder in the space sector—founder of the SpaceUp unconference and former CEO of its foundation—he brings an unusual mix of technical depth and event-driven community leadership. Based in Seattle, he’s equally at home debugging a streaming pipeline as running an unconference, and he’s known for turning messy production problems into teachable engineering wins.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at San Diego City College
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Western Governors University
Physics Mathematics, Physics Mathematics at San Diego Mesa College
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