Hi, I'm Chris 👋
Staff-level engineer and serial founder with 13+ years of experience in AI, scalable infrastructure, and design-centric product development. Currently building BAML at BoundaryML.
CW

About

Staff-level engineer and serial founder with 13+ years of experience in AI, scalable infrastructure, and design-centric product development. Early engineer at BoundaryML, where I helped shape the compiler architecture and abstractions of BAML, a language for building LLM agents, and led adoption of AI-assisted coding tools (90%+ code generated, trained team in best practices). Renowned for rapid prototyping and delivering pixel-perfect design fidelity, consistently turning ideas into compelling user experiences with designers and PMs.

Work Experience

B

BoundaryMLYC23Founding Engineer

December 2024 - Present
Founding Engineer
Joined as one of the first engineers, playing a central role in shaping product direction and developer experience for BAML, a language for LLM agents. Increased the Open Source GitHub Repo from 1k stars to 5k stars in 6 months. Architected distributed systems Clickhouse columnar database design of Boundary Studio, an LLM observability platform capable of ingesting and querying millions of structured traces per minute with sub-second latency guarantees.
C

CoFounder AIFounderAI Platform

March 2023 - January 2025
Founder & CEO/CTO
Designed and launched a scalable AI-driven fundraising platform bridging the $6B global funding gap for founders, with emphasis on data transparency and structured workflows. Architected and implemented core systems for AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and chat workflows, selecting storage and query patterns for performance and accuracy.
S

ShufflFounder1M+ Connections

2017 - Present
Founder & CTO
Founded Shuffl, facilitating over 1 million connections across 3,000+ organizations. Architected and developed the platform using AWS, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high availability. Implemented a proprietary matchmaking algorithm to enhance user engagement.
M

Madrona Venture LabsTechnical ExpertStartup Mentorship

January 2023 - March 2023
Technical Expert in Residence
Provided technical expertise and system architecture design to portfolio startups in product development and technical strategy. Assisted in evaluating new investment opportunities for 10M fund. Partnered with designers and PMs to rapidly prototype and validate ideas for portfolio companies.
A

AmazonPetabyte ScaleML Pipelines

2017 - 2020
Software Engineer
Amazon Prime Air Drones (AI Research Team): Designed and maintained petabyte-scale ingestion pipelines for autonomous drone vision systems, enabling continuous retraining of computer vision models across globally distributed datasets. Last Mile Logistics: Architected and scaled real-time telemetry platforms processing billions of events daily, leveraging AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and SQS.
B

B612Founding Engineer

2022 - 2023
Founding Engineer
Founding engineer role contributing to early product development and technical architecture.
V

Vesper FinanceLead Engineer

2022 - 2022
Lead Software Engineer
Lead software engineer role focusing on financial technology development and system architecture.
A

Active GiverLead Engineer

2017 - 2017
Lead Software Engineer
Lead software engineer role in philanthropic technology platform development.
S

Simply MeasuredLead Engineer

2014 - 2017
Lead Software Engineer
Lead software engineer role in social media analytics platform development.
E

ExpediaSoftware Engineer

2012 - 2014
Software Engineer
Software engineer role in travel technology platform development.

Education

W

Western Washington University

2008 - 2012
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Skills

TypeScript
Rust
Python
Java
Go
React
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
LLMs
AI Agents
RAG
Vector Databases
AWS
PostgreSQL
Supabase
DynamoDB
Docker
CI/CD
System Design
Scalable Architecture
My Projects

Check out my latest work

I've worked on a variety of projects, from simple websites to complex web applications. Here are a few of my favorites.

Unhook

Open source CLI + VSCode extension for local webhook development, enabling developers to test webhooks locally with ease.

TypeScriptNode.jsVSCode Extension APICLIWebhooks
WebsiteGitHubSource
Untrace

Open source SDK for forwarding LLM traces and external data sources, providing observability and monitoring for AI applications.

TypeScriptLLM ObservabilityTracingMonitoringAI Systems
WebsiteGitHubSource
BAML

BAML (Boundary AI Markup Language) - A language for building LLM agents with powerful abstractions and compiler architecture.

RustTypeScriptLLM AgentsCompiler DesignAI Development
WebsiteGitHubSource
CoFounder AI

AI-driven fundraising platform bridging the $6B global funding gap for founders, with emphasis on data transparency and structured workflows.

Next.jsTypeScriptAWSAI AgentsRAGVector Databases
Website
Shuffl

Facilitating over 1 million connections across 3,000+ organizations through proprietary matchmaking algorithms and scalable platform architecture.

AWSScalable ArchitectureMatchmaking AlgorithmsUser EngagementPlatform Development
Website
Contact

Get in Touch

Want to chat? Feel free to reach out via LinkedIn or email and I'll respond whenever I can.