Chris Sprague
Chief Executive Officer at Signetic
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolChris Sprague is a seasoned CEO and serial founder with over 17 years of experience building cloud-native, AI/ML-driven digital health and edtech products at scale. A Stanford-trained Symbolic Systems and Computer Science alum with an MS from Georgia Tech, he has led Leapfrog Technology’s growth into a 450+ global engineering firm partnering with 150+ enterprises and generating 90%+ referral business. He combines hands-on product and engineering leadership—from early-stage startups like OpenStudy and Signetic to enterprise engagements—while embedding AWS-first, secure, scalable architectures and GenAI capabilities. Chris’s work spans clinical and educational use cases, including a mass vaccination solution used by public health organizations and research-backed edtech platforms funded by Gates, NSF and NIH. Known for turning research-infused ideas into viable products quickly, he balances operational rigor with a founder’s appetite for bold, user-centered experimentation.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS Symbolic Systems Computer Science, BS Symbolic Systems Computer Science at Stanford UniversityGithub contributions (2)
Shadowfiend/sparkweb
Sep 2008 - Dec 2008
Contributions:71 commits in 3 months
spraguer/spraguer.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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