About

Chris Frost is a highly experienced software engineer with a focus on systems software. He has worked at Samsara, Google Infrastructure, and as a researcher with several collaborations. At Samsara, Chris is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and helps lead the development of the backend infrastructure for their products. He has been instrumental in building the infrastructure for teams to run code in their microservice backend, serving GraphQL endpoints, data storage systems, and backend systems that communicate with their hardware. Chris has also helped in scaling and ensuring reliability across their stack, as well as ensuring security across their backend. Chris has collaborated on system designs, issue investigations, and code reviews, and has been involved in the development of new products that push Samsara's existing abstractions or infrastructure. He has also been involved in team roadmaps and OKRs, setting and communicating scaling and reliability goals, leading the responses to some of their highest-impact production incidents, scaling their engineering processes, and organizing forums for engineers to communicate the stories of what they have accomplished. Chris has mentored engineers across levels, interviewed with a focus on their Staff+ engineering, engineering exec, and new engineering roles, and developed their promotion processes and career framework. Chris has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he improved consistency and durability guarantees that file systems can efficiently provide to applications. He also has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Virginia. Chris has technical specialties in systems software, distributed systems, distributed storage systems, file system consistency, programming languages, open source software, and networks. He has relevant experience of 12.88 years and is skilled in software engineering, backend, senior software engineering, infra, frontend, web, dotNET, research scientist, microservices, and mobile. Chris is an accomplished individual with a proven track record in software engineering and systems development.