Summary
Christopher Gilbert is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 13 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across enterprise and Web3. As Co-Founder and CTO of Elixir Protocol he’s pioneering decentralized, algorithmic market-making to bring liquidity to long-tail cryptoassets, after leading engineering at Tokensoft where he scaled a token-launch platform to 300 million requests per hour. He has deep operational and architecture chops from multiple technical lead roles at IDEXX—driving containerization, squad-based delivery, and rapid release cadences—and a proven track record of turning PoCs into funded blockchain products for provenance and chain-of-custody. Comfortable both managing high-performing remote teams and shipping low-level technical solutions, he’s also the author of a widely known application-layer DoS technique against Apache, underscoring a pragmatic security mindset. Based in Hope, Maine, he blends startup grit with enterprise rigor to deliver auditable, resilient systems for complex domains.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Env, BSc. Env at Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda (CATUC)
MSc Natural Resources, MSc Natural Resources at University of Buea