Ed Nightingale
Vice President, Digital Products at General Motors
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Frost is a Senior Staff software engineer and technical leader with 16 years building and scaling large-scale distributed systems, storage, and developer platforms. He helped grow Samsara from a 10-person startup into a 3,000+ employee public company, guiding architecture for a ~15-team Platform org and driving reliability, telemetry, and GraphQL/ API scaling through >10× load growth. Earlier he was an early Spanner engineer at Google, owning backup/restore and making the system resilient to regional outages while contributing to award-winning research. His PhD work at UCLA produced influential file-system consistency research (BPFS, Featherstitch) that still receives impact recognition, reflecting a rare blend of deep systems research and production rigor. Chris is equally comfortable setting org-wide technical direction and rolling up his sleeves on critical incidents and hands-on systems work. Based in San Francisco, he combines strong mentorship and process design with an engineer-first approach to enable complex new product lines and long-term platform health.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of MichiganBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at DePauw University
Github Skills (12)
graphql10
realtime10
runner10
filesystem9
go9
programming-language8
golang8
go-framework8
amazon-web-services7
stock7
finance6
go-packages4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ucla-readable/bpfs
Jan 2010 - Sep 2010
Byte-Addressable File System
Contributions:249 commits, 1 branch in 8 months
filesystem
ccfrost/camflow
Feb 2026 - Apr 2026
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 month
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