Summary
Christopher Bradford is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 21 years of experience building product-first engineering organizations across the U.S. and Europe, currently leading Storied from Zurich. He has a track record of scaling teams and platforms—growing Ancestry’s mobile team from a single developer to 30, driving cloud and open-source transformations, and managing global engineering organizations of 150+ people. Comfortable at the intersection of product, people, and process, he embeds Agile and OKR practices to turn strategy into repeatable delivery while mentoring technical leaders. A lifelong builder, he also runs a long-standing web consultancy (Alive! LLP) and co-founded the Mormon Transhumanist Association, reflecting an unusual blend of technical craft, futurist thinking, and community-focused leadership. His BA in Linguistics hints at a systems-oriented, communication-first approach to complex technical problems.
21 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BA Linguistics, BA Linguistics at Brigham Young University
English, German, Italian, American Sign Language