Chris Fry, Salesforce.com

Chris Fry is VP of Platform Development at Salesforce.com and is responsible for the technology behind the force.com platform. He specializes in Software as a Service and creating and leading agile teams.

He is the author of JSR-173 (Streaming API for XML) and has led the implementation and deployment of massively scalable Web Services at Salesforce.com and BEA. He received his Ph. D. in Cognitive Science from UCSD and was a post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.