Before joining Databricks, he was an academic at UC Berkeley where he worked on applying measurement to better understand security issues ranging from exploits to abuse. He also dabbles hardware projects with embedded processors and microcontrollers. Chris received his Ph.D. and bachelors degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Electrical and Computer Engineering. http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81313483492