Josh Christie

I lead the Product and Engineering teams for JupiterOne.

• Responsible for software development, product management, information security, and cloud infrastructure. Reporting to the CEO.

Investing in early stage companies headquartered in the Triangle.

I led ChannelAdvisor Engineering and supported integrating the platform and the team into CommerceHub.

• Led technology and information security due diligence for $663M take-private transaction in November 2022.
• Supported various platform, product, and customer success initiatives for the combined company.

I led technology on the executive team for ChannelAdvisor, a publicly traded software company ($175M revenue), with responsibility for all software development, infrastructure, and information security. I built ChannelAdvisor's globally distributed engineering organization (160+ engineers, 50+ contractors) developing SaaS e-commerce software for large brands and retailers around the world.

• Responsible for all software development, technology strategy, information security, and cloud/datacenter/network operations. Reporting to the CEO/COO.
• Strong software development and enterprise architecture experience building high performance, distributed systems that scale to tens of thousands of operations per second and over $10B in online sales per year.
• Led the creation of two international engineering offices (Madrid and Shanghai) and the integration of multiple international offices into a cohesive, global engineering organization with members across the U.S., Spain, Ireland, France, China, and United Kingdom.
• Developed a leadership team of highly technical managers who lead people, projects, and software architecture for their teams.
• Managed an annual R&D budget greater than $25M, supporting $175M in revenue and $40M+ in EBITDA.
• M&A experience including integration of engineering teams and product lines from domestic and international acquisitions.
• Extensive experience with public company financial, auditing, and compliance concerns.
• Transitioned to continuous delivery development and deployment model with hourly automated deployments to production every day with zero downtime.
• Tech stack for hybrid cloud architecture includes C#, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, NGINX, AWS, VMWare, Microsoft Windows, and Linux.
• Held additional key roles from startup through successful IPO in 2013 including Engineering Director, Engineering Manager, and Technical Lead Software Engineer.

• One of four developers who created Microsoft Visual Studio Team System's HTTP web load testing product.
• Personally responsible for the Web Test Recorder, coded web tests (including C# and VB.NET code generation), the WebTestFramework object model/API, and much of the highly multi-threaded web load test execution engine.
• Expert at HTTP protocol and high-performance execution.
• Published a paper on MSDN about techniques for testing the performance of web applications.
• Patent granted for a secure and scalable way to distribute version-controlled files to remote sites over HTTP.

• Developed a web application to enable clients' customer service agents to view online order details.

• Developed web applications to manage reports on competitors' products and compare hardware diagnostic results.

• Systems and methods for compressing and extracting information from marketplace taxonomies
  US11138203B2 granted October 05, 2021
  US10552420B2 granted February 04, 2020
  US9430482B2 granted August 30, 2016

  Patents for a system to represent diverse product taxonomies and data requirements in a standard way and a method to reduce the number of unique data mappings.

• Method and apparatus for distributed information management
  US7937753B2 granted May 5, 2011

  Patent for a novel method to securely distribute and cache version-controlled files using standard, unsecured HTTP proxy servers.

• EPA Section 608 Technician Certification
  July 2021

  Universal certification to handle refrigerants and service all three types (small, high pressure, low pressure) of refrigeration and HVAC equipment.

• 40 Under 40 Award by Triangle Business Journal
  April 2015

  The 40 Under 40 awards recognize outstanding professionals under the age of 40 for their contributions to their organizations and to the community.

• English - native
• Spanish - conversational (B2)

• Review applications and interview candidates for the NC State Park Scholarship program, the top academic scholarship at the university.

• Head coach of indoor soccer teams in the summer and winter seasons.

• Head coach of youth soccer teams in the spring and fall seasons.

• Organized free meetup group for practicing Spanish language conversation.

• Won my age group for four seasons in a competitive running series of 1 mile, 5K, 8K, 10K, 10 mile, and half marathon distances.
• Each race supported a local non-profit organization.

• Led weekly groups of volunteers building concrete block homes for underprivileged families for three summers near Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico.