Summary
Chris Schuster is a Cloud Architect with 11 years of professional experience designing and delivering enterprise and mission-critical systems, currently leading cloud strategy and implementations through his consultancy, Schuster Scientific Computing. He has a strong track record from product ideation to full-scale production deployment, including platform architecture at Monsanto and earlier leadership in medical-software development at Elekta. Chris blends hands-on software engineering with infrastructure expertise to build resilient, scalable systems and to shepherd organizations through cloud adoption. Based in Missouri, he pairs advanced academic training with practical consulting experience, often tackling complex integration challenges that bridge legacy systems and modern cloud-native architectures. Notably, his career reflects repeated entrepreneurship and long-term client relationships rather than high-volume open-source visibility, emphasizing delivery and reliability for mission-critical workloads.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Saint Louis Abbey/Saint Louis Priory School
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Washington University in St. Louis
English, French