Summary
Christopher Hull is a veteran product developer and inventor with over three decades of hands-on experience building software from assembly on the Apple ][ to modern Spring Boot microservices, with code shipped on millions of devices including nearly every Macintosh since the mid‑90s and most Kindle models. He blends full‑stack systems knowledge—hardware, embedded Linux, cloud infrastructure, and backend Java—with product sensibility, having led services for EHRs, retail catalogs, and aerospace data pipelines as well as patent‑bearing innovations at Amazon Lab126 and Mediagate. Based in Sunnyvale, he runs a personal CentOS-based garage cloud (KVM, Kubernetes, GitLab) and recently launched a patent‑pending social platform (GatherZone) that demonstrates his end-to-end product and cloud expertise. Comfortable across IDEs and languages, he repeatedly ships resilient, large‑scale storage and API systems (including multipart/petabyte-capable blob storage) and mentors cross-functional teams through architecture and integration. Notable but less obvious: he has a track record of reviving and modernizing legacy systems (database migrations, Eclipse plugins, QuickDraw/driver work) while staying current with cloud-native tooling.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science / EE, Computer Science / EE at California State University, Northridge
Computer Science, Computer Science at California Lutheran University
Computer Science, Computer Science at Pierce College