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Chris Granger

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High performance systems, database and compiler implementation, novel interfaces

HIGHLIGHTS

• Created the Light Table IDE, which influenced tools at Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many others.
• Built a database from scratch that could run games at 60fps and was 100x faster than the closest commercial offering. It powered a novel programming system.
• Prototyped a pipeline for Stripe Sigma that could handle more than the transaction volume of Visa on a laptop.
• Designed and implemented numerous natural language interfaces.
• Wrote blog posts that have been read by millions.

EXPERIENCE

• Jump - Principal
  2020 - PRESENT
  • Independent research and consulting in distributed systems, CRDTs, programming interfaces, NLP, and reasoning.
  • Built a product that translates natural language to relational queries based on ontological reasoning that executes in microseconds on commodity hardware.

<li>
    <div>
        <span class="company">RelationalAI</span>
        <span class="dash">-</span>
        <span class="title">VP Product</span>
    </div>
    <div class="date">2019 - 2020</div>
    <ul>
        <li>Defined a position and vision for the company as an AI embedded database platform and led the design of novel tools to support it.</li>
    </ul>
</li>

<li>
    <div>
        <span class="company">Looker</span>
        <span class="dash">-</span>
        <span class="title">Principal Engineer</span>
    </div>
    <div class="date">2018 - 2019</div>
    <ul>
        <li>Worked with a small team to research, conceptualize, design, and prototype the future of Looker.</li>
    </ul>
</li>

<li>
    <div>
        <span class="company">Light Table / Eve</span>
        <span class="dash">-</span>
        <span class="title">Cofounder and CEO (YCS12, a16z, Sam Altman)</span>
    </div>
    <div class="date">2011 - 2018</div>
    <ul>
        <li>Built an IDE from scratch that was the most successful software kickstarter of the time and became a stated influence on the design of tools at Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many others. </li>
        <li>Implemented 24 compilers, 34 environments/IDEs, 25 relational engines, 16 storage engines, 9 interpreters, dozens of parsers, and numerous standard libraries based on state of the art research.</li>
    </ul>
</li>

<li>
    <div>
        <span class="company">Microsoft</span>
        <span class="dash">-</span>
        <span class="title">Program Manager</span>
    </div>
    <div class="date">2009 - 2010</div>
    <ul>
        <li>Owned the C# and VB IDE in Visual Studio. Was tasked with designing the future of Visual Studio and laid the groundwork for the next decade of features for the IDE.</li>
    </ul>
</li>

EDUCATION

• UNC Chapel Hill - B.A. German
  2005 - 2008
  • Entered college as a junior and took classes across dozens of disciplines, from Egyptology to advanced genetics and computer science. Graduated a year early.