Chris Krough
Engineering Leader, Platform & AI Transformation, 8 Acquisitions, 3 IPOs
- Role
- Founder at Backchain
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chris Krough
25+ years building and scaling platforms at Amazon, OJO Labs, Rackspace, and high-growth startups. Three IPOs, eight acquisitions, and led teams through over in revenue growth.After helping lead through $200M in acquisition and funding, I took a break and went deep on AI/ML; Deep Learning specialization, building RAG-based knowledge systems, building data normalization pipelines, and developing LLM output evaluation frameworks.What I bring- Platform Engineering & Kubernetes at scale- AI/ML systems with practical business impact- Team leadership through hypergrowth and M&A- Cloud architecture reliability and cost optimizationCurrently building AI solutions at Backchain.
Experience
Founder
Aug 2025 — Present · Washington, DC, US
Backchain helps small and mid-sized businesses discover where AI works, and saves them from where it doesn\'t.
Skills
- Cluster
- Javascript
- Unix
- Perl
- Linux
- Lamp
- Subversion
- System Administration
- Mysql
- Distributed Systems
- Git
- Postgresql
- Apache
- Clustering
- Java
- Ruby
- Dns
- Integration
- Data Center
- Open Source
- Html
- Cloud Computing
- Scalability
- Shell Scripting
- Software Engineering
- Mongodb
- Agile
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Amazon Ec2
- Agile Methodologies
- Web Services
- Technical Leadership
- Web Applications
- Deployment
- Saas
- Architecture
- Operating Systems
- Automation
- Virtualization
- Php
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