Christine Avanessians
Director Of Product, External Compute (Warehouses, SPCS), Org Management, And Cost Governance at Snowflake
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristine Avanessians is a seasoned technical product leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling enterprise cloud, data, and AI services across Microsoft, Netflix, and Snowflake. She specializes in Serverless PaaS, containers, confidential computing, blockchain, cloud networking, and cost/governance strategies, consistently translating complex technical architectures into product and business strategy. At Snowflake she has led platform, billing/monetization, and external compute efforts, and previously drove core compute and blockchain initiatives across Microsoft Azure and platform engineering at Netflix. Christine brings a rare mix of deep electrical engineering training from Stanford and UC Berkeley and hands-on cloud product delivery that spans incubation to large-scale rollout. Known for cross-organizational leadership, she often bridges engineering, finance, and org management to unlock scalable, cost-efficient compute solutions. An uncommon detail: she has repeatedly shifted between cutting-edge infrastructure domains (blockchain to confidential computing to serverless) while maintaining strong monetization and platform governance focus.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyM.S., Electrical Engineering, M.S., Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (9)
arm10
azure10
bicep10
arm-templates10
confidential8
enclave7
scale6
blockchain6
trusted-execution-environment4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
Azure/coco-framework
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
The Confidential Consortium Blockchain Framework is an open-source system that enables high-scale, confidential blockchain networks that meet all key enterprise requirements—providing a means to accelerate production enterprise adoption of blockchain technology.
Contributions:2 commits, 6 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 day
trusted-execution-environmentadoptionblockchainconsortiumscale
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