As IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO Open Technology for IBM, Christopher has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering of distributed systems for most of his 38+ year career in IT and has been actively engaged in open standards and open source development since 1999. He has technical responsibility for all of IBM’s strategic open source and standards initiatives, including Hyperledger, Open Container Initiative, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Cloud Foundry, Node.js, Docker and more. He represents IBM on the Hyperledger Governing Board, is a Maintainer of the Hyperledger Fabric project, and chairs the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee.