Chris King

Head of Product at Protect AI

Chris King has diverse work experience in various roles and companies.

Their most recent position is as the Head of Product at Protect AI, starting in August 2022. In this role, they focus on building flexible and performant systems powered by Machine Learning. Chris helps customers understand security and privacy risks related to ML-powered workloads and develops products to mitigate these issues.

Prior to that, Chris founded WolfTicketsAI in March 2021. Their company leverages machine learning to deliver financially profitable strategies for combat sport betting.

Chris also worked at Amazon Web Services (AWS) from September 2016 to July 2022. Chris started as a Senior Global Partner Solutions Architect and later became the Principal Architect AI Services. In these roles, they contributed to the design and development of AI services and provided technical guidance to partners and clients.

Before joining AWS, Chris worked as a consultant in their own self-employed business from January 2004 to March 2022. Chris deployed secure networks for the US Department of Defense's counter-terrorism program and designed an auto-scaling platform for natural language processing and BigData mining on Amazon Web Services.

Chris was the Director of IT at Asymchem from April 2007 to June 2017. Chris led the migration to open-source technologies, designed multiple data centers, and created a custom web application for document storage and file transmission.

At IBM, from August 2015 to September 2016, Chris served as a Senior Managing Consultant. Chris produced training materials on cloud architecture, established onboarding processes for clients, and provided technical consultation for client applications.

Before IBM, Chris worked as a Technical Lead at Connecture from July 2014 to August 2015. Chris created deployment pipelines and collaborated with the database team on transitioning their workflow to version control.

Prior to that, Chris was a Member of Technical Staff at NetApp from August 2012 to June 2014. Chris developed an AI for test failures and created a web application to track failures in the regression lab.

Chris also co-owned and operated CVZ Holdings from March 2009 to January 2012. Chris assisted with the design of a network storage engine and later migrated it to Amazon S3 using Django and Boto for authentication.

In summary, Chris King's work experience spans various companies and roles, including leadership positions, technical consultation, product development, and independent consultancy. Chris has expertise in AI services, cloud architecture, machine learning, and network infrastructure.

Chris King attended North Carolina State University from 2006 to 2011, where they obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science. In addition, they have earned several certifications from Amazon Web Services, including AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate, AWS Certified Developer - Associate, and AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. The specific dates of these certifications are not provided.

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  • Head of Product

    August, 2022 - present