Chris Wheeler
Lead Product Manager, Hazardous Industries at KPA
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Wheeler is a pragmatic product and technical leader with over a decade of hands-on experience launching cloud-native platforms, commerce systems, and deliverability products across startups and enterprises like Amazon, Shopify, and Oracle. As a founder and current Lead Product Manager for Hazardous Industries at KPA, he blends strategy, technical transformation, and ruthless customer advocacy to move greenfield ideas into production and scale established portfolios. He routinely defines North Stars, calibrates OKRs and KPIs, and runs rapid experiment-learn cycles while personally removing roadblocks and shipping work alongside engineers. His background spans email deliverability and ISP relations to distributed cloud infrastructure, mobile commerce, and emerging AI/computer vision use cases—skills he pairs with vendor negotiation and GTM expertise. Not obvious from titles: he’s launched foundational services such as Amazon SES and acted as an operational proxy to C-suite technology leaders, giving him rare experience translating executive vision into engineering execution. Based in Boston, he thrives at the intersection of product, program, and technical execution, favoring measurable outcomes and repeatable frameworks.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Management Information Systems at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Information Technology Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Information Technology Management at WGU WashingtonContinuing Education, Data Analytics, Continuing Education, Data Analytics at Juno College of TechnologyContinuing Education, Java Programming, Continuing Education, Java Programming at Austin Community College
Github Skills (186)
shell10
cli10
csv9
cap9
python9
bash9
kitematic9
cli-app9
docker9
php9
graphviz9
react9
c-library9
xml9
typescript9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
lostinplace/EmpyrionAPITools
Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
A simple framework for easier Empyrion mods
Contributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years
pythonsimple-frameworkmodding-toolsempyrionmods
lostinplace/My-First-Spaceship
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:106 commits in 1 month
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