Summary
Christopher Hull is a seasoned software engineer and product inventor with decades of experience spanning startups and established tech players, based in Sunnyvale, California. As Product Developer and Inventor at Spillikin Aerospace, he leads GatherZone and OurHangouts—a patent-pending social platform with an iPhone/Android app and a cloud backend on Heroku and MongoDB. His career includes senior engineering roles at McKesson, Walmart Labs, Lab126, Apple, Cisco, DIRECTV, and more, delivering cloud services, cross-platform storage solutions, embedded systems, and data-intensive applications. Notable achievements include being a primary contributor on a patent for the Kindle's K-Windows windowing system and advancing a patent-pending GatherZone project. With deep proficiency across Java, C/C++, Python, and distributed systems, he routinely ships microservices, back-end storage, and scalable architectures. A versatile technologist who combines product design, engineering leadership, and hands-on development to bridge hardware, software, and cloud ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Northridge
Computer Science, Computer Science at California Lutheran University
Computer Science, Computer Science at Pierce College