Summary
Christopher Gilbert is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 13 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across enterprise and Web3. As Co-Founder and CTO of Elixir Protocol he’s pioneering decentralized, algorithmic market-making to bring liquidity to long-tail cryptoassets, after leading engineering at Tokensoft where he scaled a token-launch platform to 300 million requests per hour. He has deep operational and architecture chops from multiple technical lead roles at IDEXX—driving containerization, squad-based delivery, and rapid release cadences—and a proven track record of turning PoCs into funded blockchain products for provenance and chain-of-custody. Comfortable both managing high-performing remote teams and shipping low-level technical solutions, he’s also the author of a widely known application-layer DoS technique against Apache, underscoring a pragmatic security mindset. Based in Hope, Maine, he blends startup grit with enterprise rigor to deliver auditable, resilient systems for complex domains.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Maine
Hebron Academy