Christopher Lankford
Chief Technology Officer at Pie Insurance
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Lankford is a seasoned technology executive and current CTO with 11+ years leading engineering organizations for high-growth SaaS companies. He specializes in scaling cloud-native architectures, establishing continuous delivery pipelines, and building data-driven product teams that ship multiple daily deployments with zero customer downtime. Christopher is known for creating engineering cultures centered on experimentation, psychological safety, and team-driven technology choices—principles he operationalized while building Next Trucking’s and Kareo’s platforms and data science practices. He has hands-on experience introducing Kubernetes, microservices, and A/B testing frameworks to accelerate time-to-market and reduce operational risk. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs a physics and computer science background with practical delivery know-how, regularly hiring senior talent from top tech firms to elevate product and analytics capabilities. A lifelong learner who still codes occasionally, he blends strategic leadership with a bias for engineering autonomy and measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Physics Physics Computer Science Mathematics, B.S. Physics Physics Computer Science Mathematics at Indiana University Bloomington
Stackoverflow
929reputation
137kreached
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Github Skills (11)
angular-directives6
generics6
rust6
docker6
operator-overloading6
angular-template6
borrowing6
angular6
java6
react2
typescript1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
clankford/angular2-bot-chat
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:43 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
PeerlessIO/Peerless
Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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