Christopher Burnett

Christopher Burnett is a highly experienced software engineer currently serving as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Cruise since October 2023. Previously, Christopher held the position of Chief Architect at Splice from January 2021 to January 2023, managing two infrastructure teams focused on monolith decomposition and enhancing the company's service-oriented architecture (SOA). Past roles include Principal Software Engineer at Lyft, where notable projects included the development of a bi-directional streaming proxy and a centralized protobuf platform, as well as Lead Software Engineer at VSCO, contributing significantly to the transition from a PHP monolith to Go HTTP and gRPC services. Christopher co-founded and served as CTO at Hyke Incorporated and played a significant role as a Staff Software Engineer at Twitter, modernizing the media pipeline and transitioning API endpoints to Scala services. Early experience includes a Software Engineer role at Posterous, tackling a variety of full-stack challenges as the company scaled.