Chris Gillett is chief software architect for Visible Measures. Chris has more than 20 years experience as an architect and contributing software engineer, and is an expert in massively scalable systems, data mining tools and infrastructure, data warehousing, virtual machines, compilers, and systems software. Chris was formerly a member of technical staff at Vertica Systems, a high performance column store database engine company, and was chief software architect of Compete, a predictive analytics company. Chris also served as member of technical staff at Compaq, principal software engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation, and began his career working on high performance FORTRAN and BASIC compilers for small systems.
Chris is an avid motorsports enthusiast, owns a racecar, and is a high performance driving instructor for a New England car club. Chris holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Central Michigan University.