Christopher Utz
Principal Software Engineer at ISS | Institutional Shareholder Services
Norman, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Utz is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building scalable, secure, and stable software products and engineering teams from the ground up. Currently driving architecture and delivery at Institutional Shareholder Services, he previously served as CTO and Head of Development at NextThought, where he led the creation of a course-centric LMS and launched a bespoke development practice for energy, banking, and education clients. He combines executive vision with day-to-day engineering ownership, recruiting top talent and instilling devops and agile practices across remote-first teams. His background in mission-critical SaaS deployments and release engineering for financial systems gives him a practical edge in reliability and complex operational workflows. Christopher holds an MS and BS in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma and is committed to iterative development, emerging technologies, and open source principles. Based in Norman, Oklahoma, he is a pragmatic leader who bridges strategic goals and engineering reality to ship production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Oklahoma
Github Skills (154)
token-based-authentication9
data-validation9
swift9
pii9
jwt-authentication9
metadata9
data-lineage9
networking9
tvos9
watchos9
logic8
android-apps8
api8
signing8
governance8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
NextThought/OmniGroup
Feb 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:23 pushes, 4 branches, 10 tags in 1 year 11 months
NextThought/AFNetworking
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches, 4 tags in 9 months
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