Chris Gianelloni

Chris Gianelloni is an accomplished technology leader with extensive experience in platform engineering and open source blockchain solutions. Currently serving as Director of Platform Engineering at Applause since July 2017, Chris is responsible for delivering a SaaS platform for global community testers. In addition to this role, Chris holds the position of Chief Executive Officer at Blink Labs, focused on UTxO based blockchains, and is a Co-Founder of PRAGMA, a professional association for advancing open source blockchain software. Previous roles include Infrastructure Engineer at Maestro, Co-Founder and CTO at TosiDrop, and Co-Founder of CloudStruct, a Cardano Stake Pool Operator. Earlier career highlights include positions as Senior DevOps Engineer at Cask Data, Principal DevOps Engineer at BlueKai, and Senior Operations Engineer at Pinger.