Chris Whitaker Email & Phone Number

United States

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Senior Director of Software Engineering, leading multiple engineering teams building Big Data platform services and technologies. This includes driving managed services such as Spark, Trino, and Airflow, as well as storage and metadata technologies such as Iceberg and Hive. My teams work broadly across Salesforce providing services, technology and.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

- Product manager and product owner for the Big Data Platform including compute (Kafka, Spark, Trino, Airflow) and storage (Iceberg, Hive, HBase, S3).- Worked across a broad customer base within Salesforce to define and innovative strategy to bring Bg Data managed services to Salesforce.- Drove the Big Data platform strategy to deliver managed services and.

Seattle

- Drove strategic direction for public cloud infrastructure while managing $20M+ per year AWS budget across 30+ product line, including common AWS standards; and enterprise-scale monitoring and logging.- Drove prioritization, planning and execution for site reliability engineering (40 SREs). Focused on operational excellence, high reliability and.

Seattle, Washington

- Drove collaboration and consistency for Messenger product across Product Management and Engineering teams in 3 geographic locations.- Drove Production Engineering engagements across multiple software development organizations within Facebook Messenger including Real Time Communication (voice and audio) and backend messaging infrastructure.

Greater Seattle Area

General Manager, AWS Service Catalog service (May 2017-Feb 2018)- P & L responsibility for AWS Service Catalog service- Cross-functional manager for a team of 50, covering Product Management, Software Development, User Experience and operations.- Drove strategic and tactical product direction, roadmap and priorities, working closely with Business.

Greater Seattle Area

- Group program manager for the Dynamic Systems Initiative, a model-based managed solution- Program Manager for the Windows High Availability and Clustering Group, including failover clusters, network load balancing and HPC clusters- Program manager for part of the distributed COM model

United Kingdom

Consultant Software Engineer in OpenVMS Engineering, specializing in high availability clustering and cluster file systems. Responsible for- Adding 2 phase commit to the OpenVMS base operating system- Developing parts of the Spiralog log-structured file system- Porting the OpenVMS RMS (ISAM files) subsystem to the Alpha platform.