Christopher Olston is a Stanford CS PhD and seasoned software engineer specializing in large-scale ML and data infrastructure, with over a decade of experience building production systems at Google and Moloco. He led Moloco’s ML Infrastructure team to train hundreds of models per day and serve at 6M qps, and was a core developer of TensorFlow Serving at Google, helping support ~180M qps in production. His research pedigree includes award-winning work generalizing MapReduce to DAGs (Pig) and inventing the co-group primitive, contributions that influenced industry-standard big-data frameworks. Comfortable in C++, Python, Java and Go, he blends deep systems design with people leadership and polished public speaking across academia and industry. Based in Los Altos, he has an unusual career rhythm of interleaving intense production engineering with impactful research and teaching.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
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