Summary
Christopher Johnson is a senior product leader with 15 years of experience building secure, compliant cloud and enterprise systems, now leading product strategy for NetApp's identity, BlueXP, and System Manager capabilities. He brings deep technical roots from roles at Google—where he led Assured Workloads, data residency, sovereign cloud and Sovereign AI efforts—and earlier architecture and R&D leadership across HPE, HP Software, and Stratavia. Christopher combines hands-on engineering fluency (databases, container orchestration, JS/Java stacks) with program-level delivery using SAFe, enabling regulated and government-grade cloud offerings. He has a track record of shaping award-winning large deals for Google Cloud and co-inventing software-defined community cloud concepts that bridge compliance and scalability. Based in San Rafael, he pairs strategic vision with practical product ops experience, often stepping into technical architecture when products hit complexity bottlenecks.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Technology, BS Information Technology at University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Colorado State University
Spanish