Chris Dail is a Senior Director of Software Engineering at Akiri, a healthcare networking startup. He has 15 years of experience building software products in various roles including software developer, architect, and manager. Chris is a programming language enthusiast and is passionate about clean, readable code.

Matt has spent the last 13+ years as a developer and manager in startups and large corporations, most recently joining RISE as CTO. He has led teams through org restructures, engineering process initiatives, production incidents, and daunting deadlines while maintaining morale, quality, velocity, and release commitments. He’s an ever curious leader who believes life is too short to do something that doesn’t fulfill you.

Matt believes deeply in using data to drive decisions, including analytics and customer feedback. He doesn’t just graph and monitor things at work—he’s fully instrumented his side projects and even graphed his infant son’s feeding and diaper change data!

Chris is a Senior Solutions Architect at Blue Spurs. He developed his first computer program in 1975 and at one point had JCPenney’s ecommerce site running on his desktop machine.

After spending nearly a decade in Silicon Valley, Chris brings a wealth of knowledge that covers just about any topic in technology and architecture space, but he is truly passionate about Amazon Web Services, security, golf, and single malt scotch. Chris’ role allows him to focus on helping clients identify and solve their business and technical challenges and doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty to help clients succeed.

Chris has spoken at numerous AWS user group events and enjoys talking to clients of the challenges and benefits of AWS. He achieved his first AWS certification in 2013 and currently has 6 AWS certifications, including the Security Speciality cert.