Chris Tilson
Chief Customer Officer at Goose
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Tilson is a customer-centric executive with nearly two decades of leadership in product, operations, and entrepreneurship, currently serving as Chief Customer Officer at Goose. He blends strategic product development with hands-on operational improvements, having transitioned from Chief Product Officer at Goose and earlier founded PetBookings, a niche booking platform that drove yield management in the pet care industry. At Arbor Lane Kennel he applied those technologies directly, proving their impact on revenue, efficiency, and satisfaction—demonstrating a rare operator-founder-product leader trifecta. Trained in organizational leadership with an aviation-technical background, he brings structured thinking and service-oriented rigor to growth initiatives. Based in Indianapolis, he is known for aligning product roadmaps to real customer workflows and for turning family-business lessons into scalable SaaS playbooks.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Organizational Leadership, BS, Organizational Leadership at Purdue UniversityA.S., Aviation Flight Technology, A.S., Aviation Flight Technology at Vincennes University
Github Skills (17)
clash6
openwhisk2
bottomnavigationview2
deploying2
elevation2
docker1
kubernetes1
apache1
faas1
azure1
serverless1
serverless-architectures1
serverless-functions1
kubernetes-deployment1
openshift1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sayedkhalidshah2/cs326-final-gimel
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 30 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
dergoose/hackumass2019
Oct 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 9 months
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