Summary
Christopher Walsh is a seasoned cloud and data analytics leader with over 15 years of experience guiding large-scale IT transformations across insurance, banking, and retail. Currently Head of Data Analytics Customer Engineering for North America Retail at Google, he partners with CIOs and executive teams to move organizations from on-prem and colo environments to fully managed, data-driven cloud architectures. He has a deep background in project and program management, technical architecture, and customer onboarding, and has led specialist teams focused on Data + AI, databases, and infrastructure. Christopher blends enterprise process rigor from his IBM and program management roots with Google’s product-led, customer-centric approach to deliver cost-effective, no-ops outcomes. Outside work he runs a small island adventure business and is a developer-musician, reflecting a hands-on, creative streak that informs his leadership and problem-solving. Based in Fort Worth, he values urgency, integrity, and building teams that make it easy for customers to adopt transformative technology.
8 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Project Management, Project Management at IBM Education
BS Finance, BS Finance at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign