Chris Teitzel is a founder and hands-on tech consultant with 11+ years of experience helping startups, investors, and Fortune 100s stop bleeding money on bad technology choices and messy implementations. He founded Cellar Door in 2009 to bring enterprise-level development and product execution to clients lacking in-house expertise, and later launched Lockr to simplify secure, scalable key management for modern hosting platforms. Chris blends developer chops with strategic “tech therapy,” diagnosing architectural, process, and budget issues that others miss and then executing pragmatic fixes. He’s comfortable moving from boardroom budget decisions to code-level efficiency overhauls, reshaping teams and stacks to deliver durable, maintainable systems. A former molecular biologist turned technologist, he brings a research-minded attention to evidence and measurement when assessing technical risk. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he’s known for asking the tough future-focused questions that reveal what’s truly broken and how to fix it.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA Molecular Biology, BA Molecular Biology at Azusa Pacific University
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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