Christopher Brown
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Brown is a Distinguished Engineer with 17+ years building and operating large-scale cloud and distributed systems, currently working on DGX Cloud at NVIDIA. A founding engineer of Amazon EC2 and inventor on multiple patents across cloud computing, networking, VM/runtime hosting, and CDN technologies, he blends deep systems programming (Erlang, C++, Common Lisp, Java, C#, Ruby) with product and operational leadership. He has led engineering and operations teams at Fastly, Opscode (Chef), Microsoft and Amazon, shipping greenfield products and production infrastructure that reduced latency and enabled massive scale. Known as a pragmatic risk-taker, he has driven successful startup exits and launched new lines of business inside large organizations. Outside full-time roles he keeps coding actively—treating time away from employment as more time to build—and brings an engineer’s curiosity informed by a BSEE and an early career in network routing and the US Army.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Billings West High SchoolBSEE Electrical Engineering French Literature, BSEE Electrical Engineering French Literature at Gonzaga University
English, French
Github Skills (60)
kubernetes10
glusterfs10
docker10
reverse-proxy10
marathon10
letsencrypt10
load-balancing10
proxy10
melpa10
etcd10
zookeeper10
emacs-lsp10
vim10
consul10
go10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
skeptomai/emacs-config
Dec 2013 - Jan 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 1 month
skeptomai/spacemacs
May 2022 - Jul 2024
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
vimspacemacsemacsemacs-lspcommunity-driven
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