Cris
Solutions Architect at Google
Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorCris 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
Github Skills (12)
bert9
natural-language-processing7
compression7
nlp7
kaggle5
machine-learning4
visualization4
ai3
pelican2
data-visualization2
bootswatch2
css2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cbenge509/cbenge509.github.io
Feb 2020 - Jan 2026
Contributions:3 PRs, 162 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years
cbenge509/cbenge509
Jul 2021 - Jan 2026
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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