Christopher Brown
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChristopher Brown is a senior principal engineer with 16 years of experience designing and delivering scalable distributed software and cloud infrastructure. As a founding engineer of Amazon EC2 and an inventor on several cloud computing and networking patents, he helped shape the early AWS landscape and the broader infrastructure stack. He has led engineering, operations, and product teams at Amazon, Fastly, Opscode, and Microsoft, driving architecture, reliability, and latency optimization for global platforms. A US Army veteran with a BSEE from Gonzaga University, he combines disciplined engineering acumen with broad cross-functional leadership. He remains close to code and writing, balancing hands-on development across Erlang, Ruby, C++, Java, and IP networking with strategic, big-picture system design.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Billings West High SchoolBSEE, Electrical Engineering, French Literature, BSEE, Electrical Engineering, French Literature at Gonzaga University
English, French
Github Skills (64)
glusterfs10
kubernetes10
docker10
reverse-proxy10
marathon10
letsencrypt10
load-balancing10
proxy10
melpa10
zookeeper10
etcd10
emacs-lsp10
vim10
consul10
go10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
skeptomai/emacs-config
Dec 2013 - Jan 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 1 month
skeptomai/spacemacs
May 2022 - Jul 2024
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
vimspacemacsemacsemacs-lspcommunity-driven
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