Summary
Chris Wild is a seasoned Software Engineering Manager with over a decade of experience delivering complex networking, storage, and orchestration products across enterprise, data center, and cloud markets. He combines hands-on technical depth—from embedded C and FPGA work to Java, Docker, Kubernetes, and distributed messaging—with a proven track record of shaping product vision, system architecture, and scalable CI/CD-driven delivery. At Aruba/HPE and Cisco he led cross-functional, multi-geography teams to ship SDN, VXLAN/IP tunneling, multi-tenant orchestration, and high-availability solutions while maintaining exceptionally low attrition. Known for visualizing the big picture and decomposing it into optimized, testable deliverables, he prioritizes early integration, performance testing, and operational simplicity. An engineer-manager who still codes and architects, he brings a rare combination of hardware-level storage expertise and modern cloud-native orchestration experience.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University
University of Denver