Christopher is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO Open Technology in IBM Software Group's Open Technologies organization. He has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering of distributed systems for most of his 35+ year career in IT and has been actively engaged in open standards and open source development since 1999. He has technical responsibility for IBM's open source and standards initiatives relevant to Cloud Computing, including OpenStack, Cloud Foundry and Docker. He is the elected chair of the Hyperledger Project's Technical Steering Committee.

He enjoys tennis, both as a spectator and as an avid club player.