Chris Shannon
CTO at VPC Asia K.K.
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolChris Shannon is a seasoned CTO and systems engineer with 30+ years building high-performance, low-latency infrastructure and mission-critical back-office systems for finance, hosting, and IoT across Japan and the U.S. He has led HFT platform design that cut latencies from milliseconds to microseconds, run data centers for high-traffic sites in hostile environments, and architected secure private cloud and device management services. Comfortable from hardware (hand-built rack servers, NIC tuning, power management) to full-stack software (C/C++, Java, Python/Perl, databases, XSLT), he combines deep operational expertise with product-focused engineering. A hands-on leader and mentor, he has repeatedly reduced costs while improving performance—migrating cloud workloads to custom low-latency servers and producing commercial-grade monitoring and visualization tools. His background includes vendor and procurement leadership, open-source hardware prototyping, and prior service as a U.S. Army Special Forces communications sergeant, a rare mix of discipline and technical breadth.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
NetFPGA Summer Camp, 2010
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (1)
math2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisNerd/ibmponderthis
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:34 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
ChrisNerd/wordle
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Summer of Math Exposition 2 Wordle
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
wordleexpositionmathsummer
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