Cris B
Head Of Federal Innovation
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCris B is a seasoned AI and data science leader with 8+ years driving mission-focused innovation across federal and commercial sectors, now serving as Head of Federal Innovation at Google. He builds and leads cross-functional teams that prototype generative AI and ML solutions on Google Cloud to demonstrate the “art of the possible” for U.S. civilian, defense, and intelligence customers. Previously a Senior Director of Data Science at Microsoft, he has deep experience translating experimental models into production analytics, sovereign cloud offerings, and operational resilience for complex, security-conscious environments. Cris combines hands-on technical expertise—from SQL Server and data warehousing to ML systems engineering—with strategic solution architecture and GTM enablement, and he mentors technical talent across distributed teams. Unusually, his background spans both legislative IT at the U.S. Senate and global field engineering for DoD customers, giving him a rare blend of mission continuity, compliance-first design, and pragmatic innovation.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information and Data Science, Master of Information and Data Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science Business Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Business Information Systems at Indiana Wesleyan UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Computer Science Machine Learning at Columbia University
Github Skills (19)
model-compression7
pruning7
arxiv7
nlp7
compression6
bert6
architecture6
natural-language-processing5
kaggle5
transformers4
machine-learning4
deep-learning3
visualization3
data-science3
css2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cbenge509/kaggle_facial_keypoints
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Solution for the Facial Keypoints Detection machine learning competition hosted on Kaggle.
Contributions:2 releases, 48 commits, 47 pushes in 17 days
kagglekeypointshostedmachine-learningfacial
cbenge509/cbenge509.github.io
Feb 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:132 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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