Summary
Christopher Mcclellan is a pragmatic software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building production systems from embedded firmware to cloud-native ML pipelines. He currently runs Upsyde AI while also shaping pricing, forecasting, and detection models at NextGen Lodging—work that blends LSTM time-series models, BERT-based classifiers, and custom change-point detectors for real-world products. Christopher has a strong track record modernizing legacy systems (from VBA and .NET to AVRO/FHIR transpilation) and has shipped high-performance interpreters, autoscaling HPC solutions, and IoT firmware with patent-pending fraud detection. A long-time open-source contributor and co-founder of Rubberduck-VBA, he brings a craftsman’s attention to maintainability and test-driven design even when wrestling with legacy code. Based in Grove City, Ohio, he pairs hands-on implementation skills with CTO-style architectural leadership and vendor strategy.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer