Chris Townsend
Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering
GEICO
Chris is a long time veteran in the software industry having worked on disk storage subsystems, fault tolerant computing, and many things Ubuntu and Ubuntu-related. He had a long career at Canonical (13+ years) doing such things as Ubuntu preinstalls on the latest OEM hardware, Unity Desktop, Ubuntu Touch, and most recently, Multipass. He joined GEICO in June ’24 to help lead a modernization of the GEICO infrastructure with a keen eye on Open Source.