Christopher Dowin

About Christopher Dowin

I turn infrastructure chaos into scalable revenue engines through crisis-tested leadership and platform modernization.Over 15+ years, I’ve built engineering organizations that deliver under extreme pressure while driving measurable business impact:• Led emergency response delivering critical systems in 4 days during national crisis (Francis Scott Key Bridge)• Transformed $300K pilot investment into $4.5M ARR through strategic cloud migration and platform consolidation• Architected and delivered $8M contract 3 months ahead of schedule, 30% under budget• Built engineering organizations from ground-up, scaling teams that consistently over-deliver on complex programs• Modernized legacy systems serving $50M+ contracts while maintaining 100% compliance in regulated environmentsI specialize in enterprise platform engineering where technical excellence meets business velocity. My sweet spot: taking fragmented, legacy infrastructures and transforming them into unified, scalable platforms that accelerate time-to-market while reducing operational costs.

Experience

1. Vice President of Software Engineering

   Pole Star Defense

   Apr 2024 — Present

   Built engineering organization from ground-up, consolidating subcontractor work to streamline $49M IDIQ value delivery• Led Francis Scott Key Bridge emergency response: delivered critical AIS tracking platform in 4 days during national crisis, enabling unprecedented situational awareness for U.S. Coast Guard• Architected unified data platform processing maritime intelligence across IL2/IL5 environments, resulting in $2.5M contract ceiling increase• Designed modular microservice architecture enabling deployment across 6+ separate customer environments with full IaC automation• Established engineering culture delivering consistent on-time performance: 3 major contract milestones delivered in May, July, August leading to successful $2M task order award

Education

• Florida Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Skills

• White Hat
• Java
• Microsoft Office
• Red Hat Linux
• Shell Scripting
• Agile Methodologies
• Network Traffic Analysis
• Government Contract Administration
• Subversion
• Wireshark
• Git
• Waterfall
• Unix
• Virtualization
• Tomcat
• Cuda
• Tcp/Ip
• Ant
• Centos
• C
• Programming
• Network Security
• Integration
• Oop
• Redhat
• Software Engineering
• Government Contracting
• Windows Xp Pro
• Linux
• Network Architecture
• Software Development
• Python
• Scrum
• C++
• Software Design
• Eclipse Cdt
• Object Oriented Design
• Vmware Esx
• Eclipse
• Embedded Linux