Summary
Christopher Young is a tech-driven Lead Architect with over 15 years of hands-on engineering and 20+ years of leadership experience building scalable cloud-native SaaS platforms and operational DevSecOps practices. He has repeatedly turned architecture into business outcomes—architecting a platform acquired by Walmart, growing startups to multi-million dollar ARR, and cutting integration delivery time by over 75% through containerized, vendor-rich systems. A pragmatic transformational leader, he blends system design, Agile delivery, and developer experience programs to accelerate time-to-value while achieving security standards like SLSA Level 3. Christopher excels at building and mentoring cross-functional teams that deliver billions of automated actions monthly and at packaging technical expertise into repeatable services such as CTO-as-a-Service and managed Azure offerings. Based in Missouri, he pairs an MBA in e-commerce and a finance background with a rare mix of product-minded architecture and revenue-focused execution.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MBA E-Commerce, MBA E-Commerce at Saint Louis University