Chris was always fascinated by systems and data integration between on-premises systems, private/public clouds, and hybrid data architectures. In this current role as Chief Cloud Architect at Robert Bosch LLC in California he develops a multi-cloud platform for executing and managing the complete ingress to egress development loop for autonomous vehicle software development.

Earlier in his career, Chris worked for Google Cloud, Oracle Corporation as well as several startups on distributed and global databases, platform-as-a-service systems, and distributed systems integration. He contributed scientifically to Semantic Web technologies and standards, Enterprise Application System Integration (EAI), Business-to-Business Integration (B2B) as well as Workflow Management. In addition to implementing these technologies, he wrote several books on these topics and published extensively. For more professional background information, please visit www.real-programmer.com).