Christopher Spalding
Vice President, Product & Strategy, FOLIO
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Spalding is a product and strategy executive with 12+ years shaping global research infrastructure platforms, including early Alma adoption and the growth of the FOLIO open-source ecosystem. He specializes in building sustainable platform communities by aligning product strategy, governance, and partnerships across libraries, developers, vendors, and infrastructure organizations. At EBSCO he helped found the Open Library Foundation and coordinated international development teams to advance open metadata, linked data, and interoperability. Based in Seattle, he blends hands-on back-end/web and DevOps familiarity with deep domain expertise in library systems and open collaboration. He’s particularly interested in how AI knowledge systems and open data infrastructures can strengthen discovery and research analytics across shared platforms.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, History, Master's degree, History at The University of SheffieldBachelor's degree, History, Bachelor's degree, History at Boston University
Github Skills (50)
javascript10
feature-service10
nodejs10
react10
split-testing9
feature-toggle9
feature-flags9
css9
remote-config9
feature-management9
flags9
streaming8
android8
codebase8
java8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cspalding/beerme
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:51 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
cspalding/featurehub-ruby-sdk
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Official FeatureHub Ruby SDK
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 7 branches in 4 months
sdk-rubyrubysdk
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