Christopher Gu
Senior Technical Product Manager at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Gu is a Senior Technical Product Manager with nine years of experience building developer-focused products and communities, currently driving AI research, enablement, and community initiatives for software builders at Amazon in Seattle. He blends enterprise product leadership—shipped identity verification, API and self-serve platforms at TaxBit and internal developer tooling at Microsoft—with hands-on entrepreneurial chops as the founder of Stellar Effects, a solo AR agency that has delivered billions of impressions and six-figure revenue for artists and brands. Christopher has deep devrel and hackathon coaching experience, having empowered thousands of student builders for Major League Hacking and led large-scale events as a collegiate hackathon co-founder, demonstrating a knack for evangelism and growth. Equally comfortable in technical and creative domains, he pairs strong CS foundations (BS, 3.81 GPA) with a track record of translating developer needs into scalable products and memorable user-facing experiences. Not obvious from the title: he runs a one-person studio that scaled to enterprise-level impact, showing product intuition and operational rigor in both startup and hyper-growth contexts.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, 3.7, High School Diploma, 3.7 at Parkway Central High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.81, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.81 at Missouri University of Science and Technology
English, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
react4
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heroicons2
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
guchris/chris.github.io
Jun 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:104 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
guchris/happns
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:378 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
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