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Christopher Brown

Technical customer success & AI leadership

I build technical teams, develop leaders, and help enterprise customers put cloud and AI to work. With a background in software engineering and customer success, I connect business priorities with practical technology decisions, especially in regulated industries.

Experience

GitHub

– Present

Senior Manager, Customer Success Architecture

Lead a Customer Success Architecture team serving regulated customers in financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, and the public sector. Develop technical talent and help customers adopt GitHub, strengthen secure software delivery, and connect technology to business priorities.

Amazon Web Services

Enterprise Support Manager, Strategic Accounts

Nov 2021 – Sep 2026

Led customer-facing technical teams supporting a global enterprise account. Partnered with customer executives and AWS leaders on cloud operations, organizational development, and critical business priorities.

  • Developed technical talent and future leaders. Built career paths, coached emerging managers, and helped engineers grow into broader leadership roles.
  • Brought AI into everyday work. Developed tools that helped teams understand customer issues and identify training needs, then supported their adoption across the organization.
  • Strengthened customer support practices. Advised customer leaders on incident management and post-incident learning, helping them improve how their teams respond and operate.
  • Helped executives communicate with clarity. Coached leaders through Amazon's onboarding program and raised the quality of internal documents and public technical writing.

Earlier roles at AWS

  • Enterprise Support LeadDec 2020 – Nov 2021
  • Senior Technical Account ManagerDec 2018 – Dec 2020
  • Technical Account ManagerSep 2016 – Nov 2018

Advised enterprise leaders on cloud modernization, resilience, and operational continuity across healthcare, manufacturing, and supply-chain systems.

Accenture Federal Services

Sep 2012 – Aug 2016

Software Engineering Manager (Dec 2015 – Aug 2016)

Progressed from software engineering into management and federal cloud leadership. Led secure architecture, identity and access, and modern software delivery for public-sector programs.

Avanade

Jul 2011 – Sep 2012

Solution Developer

Built cloud services for enterprise clients, leading architecture and development and working with international partners.

Harmonia Holdings Group

May 2010 – Jun 2011

Junior Developer / Quality Assurance Lead

Developed research software for government programs and moved into quality assurance leadership, with a focus on reliable releases and automated testing.

Education & learning

Virginia Tech

B.S., Computer Science · 2011

Harvard Business School Online

CLIMB, Experienced Leaders Track · 2025
CORe, High Honors · 2021

Selected credentials

  • AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate
  • AWS Certified AI Practitioner
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • AWS Agentic AI Demonstrated

Beyond the role

Making room for the next generation

Platinum Mentor, Global Mentorship Initiative. Mentor college students, primarily in Africa, as they prepare for their first professional roles.

Areas of focus

Technical customer success · People development · Executive advisory · Cloud strategy · AI adoption · Secure software delivery · Regulated industries