Summary
Chris Weaver is a senior engineer and product-focused technologist with 11+ years of experience building hardware-to-cloud systems for early-stage startups and enterprise teams. He combines deep embedded and firmware expertise with cloud architecture, machine learning, and computer vision—having designed custom object detectors and shipped both physical and virtual products used by consumers and businesses. A multiple-time founder and early employee, Chris holds twelve granted patents (with several used in the Nest thermostat) and has a track record of creating new market segments and disrupting incumbents in video conferencing and digital media. He has led cross-disciplinary teams through full product lifecycles—mechanical, hardware, firmware, manufacturing, and operations—while architecting scalable IoT data capture and analysis platforms. Comfortable moving quickly between board-level strategy and hands-on engineering, he thrives on rapid learning cycles and finding “faster, better, cheaper” opportunities that others miss. Based in Austin, he blends entrepreneurial grit with broad technical depth across cloud, big data, and embedded systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Acton School of Business
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science with minor study in Math Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science with minor study in Math Physics at Angelo State University
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