Three decades of shipping, from bare metal up.
I'm Christopher Olsen — an engineering leader and software architect who has spent nearly thirty years building software at every layer of the stack, from kernels and bootloaders to cloud-native platforms serving real users.
I started writing an operating system from scratch in 2002, founded two companies, raised angel and equity financing, and shipped products people actually depended on. Today I architect enterprise-scale platform modernization — the unglamorous, high-stakes work of taking systems that grew by accretion and giving them a spine.
What ties it all together is a bias toward simple, durable systems — code small enough to read in a sitting and boring enough to trust in production. The founder's instinct to ship, tempered by the architect's instinct to make it last.
Solutions Architect at VS Media (Westlake Village, CA) — elevated from department-level engineering manager to company-wide scope, co-authoring the long-term technology vision and serving as the technical bridge between business stakeholders and engineering across Web, Chat/Infrastructure, RevOps, and Systems. Leading a multi-quarter platform modernization consolidating 24 customer-facing surfaces onto a unified modern stack with a 6-engineer cross-departmental team.
→ Full detail in the résumé
- 2021 – PresentEngineering Manager → Solutions Architect · VS Media
- 2019 – 2021IT Director · Empower Group Partners
- 2014 – 2019CTO & Co-Founder · SpherePBX
- 2010 – 2014CEO & Lead Architect · uBix Technologies
- 2000 – 2010Founder & Owner · Domain Atlantic
- 1998 – 2001Network Administrator · Web Express · Programmer · Plug'nPay
"This was a tragedy and I personally don't feel that anybody should capitalize off of it."
Following the September 11 attacks, Christopher built the World Trade Center Memorial site the next day — uploading photos of the missing, victim lists, and a card of hope that collected hundreds of signatures within two hours. The site accepted no advertising.
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Backend & Architecture
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