About
About Chris Hristov
I'm a technology executive focused on turning strategy into outcomes - clear prioritization, strong engineering culture, and accountable delivery across product and platform.
See my public LinkedIn profile.
Selected experience
- Multi-year leadership of platform and product engineering for enterprise-scale systems.
- Organizational design: directors, managers, and IC ladders with predictable delivery cadence.
- Technical diligence and integration planning for acquisitions and major vendor selections.
- Cloud and SaaS modernization programs grounded in measurable reliability and cost outcomes.
- Embedded security, compliance, and incident response into the day-to-day SDLC.
Experience
Current
International Code Council
Vice President of Software Engineering
Leading engineering & security across modernized SaaS platforms.
25+ years
Multiple SaaS / Enterprise
Engineering & Security Leadership
Architected cloud-native systems, scaled distributed teams, and drove transformation programs.
Specialties
Technology strategyEngineering leadershipCloud & platform modernizationOrg design & hiringReliability & security governance
Skills
Executive communicationRoadmappingStakeholder alignmentTeam topologiesArchitecture reviewOperating metricsIncident cultureVendor managementAI & automationDevSecOps