Chris Johnson
Engineering leader, startup founder, investor, advisor, and product builder.
About
I'm a software engineering leader and entrepreneur originally from New Zealand, now based near Seattle. I've spent my career building products and teams in the cloud and enterprise software space, including co-founding a startup and leading product and engineering orgs at high-growth companies.
I've worked and consulted with multiple startups to grow or turn around their engineering orgs and today, I serve as CPTO at WellSaid Labs, where we're building the future of AI voice. Previously, I spent over a decade at Microsoft working across Office 365 and SharePoint, building developer platform features and leading developer/ISV relations & then co-founded Hyperfish, an enterprise SaaS company that was acquired.
I co-hosted the popular weekly Microsoft Cloud Show podcast for 9 years, hold a US patent, authored a book, and used to speak at many tech conferences around the world. Outside of work, I'm a private pilot and a dad.
Career