Christopher Fitzner is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of professional experience building scalable systems and distributed software, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs in Seattle. His career spans senior and principal engineering roles at Nike, ExtraHop, and Marchex, plus hands-on leadership as CTO and architect in early-stage startups, reflecting fluency in both product-driven and infrastructure-heavy environments. Christopher has a track record of designing resilient back-end architectures and driving cross-functional delivery across cloud-native and real-time analytics domains. He combines academic foundations from the University of Washington with practical leadership that balances code-level craftsmanship and systems thinking. Notably, he has moved between startups and large enterprises repeatedly, suggesting a comfort with rapid iteration as well as operational rigor at scale.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Washington
Contributions:1 release, 230 reviews, 114 PRs in 3 years 8 months
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