Chris Raynor is a London-based Chief Technology Officer and seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, ML training pipelines, and HPC infrastructure. He has led technical teams at startups and tech giants—driving product launches like Jua.ai’s weather-for-energy product, scaling core banking R&D at Thought Machine, and enabling enterprise security features at GitHub—while maintaining deep hands-on expertise in Go, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Slurm and IaC. Chris excels at bridging research and product priorities, building reliable, production-ready MLOps and SRE practices, and mentoring engineers through promotions and culture change. He combines an MSc in Advanced Engineering with early experience in mechanical and manufacturing systems, a background that informs his pragmatic approach to performance, tooling and operational excellence. An entrepreneur at heart, he co-founded Volary and consults on ML infrastructure, consistently translating experimental models into scalable services used by customers.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Advanced Engineering, MSc Advanced Engineering at University of Warwick
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