Chris Banner
VP Engineering at Optimizely | Platform → Product Leader | Built Tenant Platform Supporting $400M+ ARR Portfolio → Now Scaling Experimentation | Platform Modernization • Operational Excellence • M&A Integration
- Role
- VP Engineering, Experimentation at Optimizely
- Location
- Nashua, NH, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chris Banner
Engineering leader with 20+ years building and scaling SaaS platforms and teams for digital experience companies. Proven track record establishing technical foundations, driving operational excellence, and leading organizational transformation through strategic vision and cross-functional partnership.Currently leading Optimizely’s Experimentation engineering division, transforming platform reliability while steering AI integration strategy. Previously built Platform Engineering division from ground up, establishing infrastructure foundation supporting $400M+ multi-product portfolio.Strategic focus: Engineering excellence at scale, AI-first product development, enterprise software success, M&A integration, and building high-performance engineering cultures. Passionate about systematic approaches to reliability, preventive engineering practices, and leveraging technology trends to create competitive advantage.
Experience
VP Engineering, Experimentation
Nov 2024 — Present · Nashua, NH, US
Leading engineering strategy and execution for Optimizely’s Experimentation division, directing 60+ engineers across Feature Experimentation, Web Experimentation, and Analytics platforms. Delivering A/B testing, feature flagging, and experimentation infrastructure processing billions of daily decisions for Fortune 500 enterprises.Driving operational excellence transformation, reducing production incidents while accelerating engineering velocity through systematic quality improvements and cross-functional reliability practices. Steering experimentation integration into company’s $20M AI marketing orchestration initiative, establishing reusable infrastructure patterns and unified context delivery.Partnering with VP Engineering peers across platform, CMS, CMP, analytics, and SRE to influence enterprise-wide technical standards, process governance, and incident management, establishing unified approaches benefiting 250+ engineers organization-wide.
Education
Pinkerton Academy
High School
1995 — 1999
Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelors, Computer Science
1999 — 2004
Skills
- Jquery
- Web Applications
- C#
- .net
- Css
- Agile Methodologies
- Wcf
- Test Automation
- Web Services
- Microsoft Fast Search for Sharepoint
- Javascript
- Solr
- Quality Assurance
- Apache Solr
- Microsoft Search Server
- Software Engineering
- Html
- Microsoft Sql Server
- Ektron
- Cms
- Xml
- Scrum
- Sql
- Asp.net
- Visual Studio
- Wpf
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