Chris Fairley

Founder

New York City, New York, United States19 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • Founded Vetano, revolutionizing the hiring process.
  • Led cloud transformations for Fortune 500 companies.
  • Achieved 9 AWS certifications in 11 months.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with extensive experience in cloud architecture and hiring solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Start-up LeadershipBusiness OwnershipProduct StrategyBusiness DevelopmentProject ManagementProduct DevelopmentCloud ArchitectureObservabilityContainerization

Other Skills

Early Stage VenturesStart-up VenturesVideo TechnologyMarket ValidationCEOsFounderProject PlanningPrometheus.ioMigration ProjectsAmazon EKSAmazon ECSKubernetesTechnical Account ManagerActive Directory ExperienceDNS Management

About

The hiring system is broken — and it's not because people are broken. It's because the process stopped seeing people a long time ago. Algorithms scan résumés in seconds. One typo erases a decade of skill. A formatting choice buries the perfect candidate. AI rejects people before a human ever sees their name. Real talent disappears behind automation — while companies lose billions to turnover and guesswork. I founded Vetano because I lived it. After a year of unemployment and a multi-round interview that ended with "We're moving forward with other candidates," I realized the system wasn't built to see people like me — or millions of others. Résumés judge in seconds. They punish the wrong things. They reward keyword gaming over real ability. Video is different. Video is human. When you speak, move, demonstrate a skill — one typo doesn't define you. Your ability does. That's the moment I knew there had to be a new way to hire. What Vetano does: Vetano replaces résumés with verified skills videos. Candidates prove what they can actually do. Employers hire with proof — not promises. • Cuts hiring time up to 65% • Reduces cost per hire by $3,000+ • Helps candidates get hired 70% faster • Every user ID-verified for trust and safety Proof over promises. That's the standard. Where we're building: We're starting with barbers, chefs, and restaurant workers — roles where skill is visual — and expanding across trades, hospitality, healthcare, automotive, and creative roles. Anywhere skill matters, Vetano makes it visible. Why this market: Hiring inefficiency costs U.S. businesses $150B+ annually. Bad matches cost $15K–$25K each. The system is broken, and the market is ready for a new way. About me: Before Vetano, I led cloud and security transformations for government agencies and Fortune 500s: – Resolved a major Active Directory breach – Taught 85+ Microsoft courses – Earned 9 AWS certifications in 11 months – Led AWS initiatives honored with Amazon's Customer Advocacy Award U.S. Army veteran — Soldier of the Year (East Coast Region). Now building hiring infrastructure built on proof, not promises. If you believe talent deserves to be seen, let's connect. 🌍 vetano.com · 📱 @getvetano

Experience

19 yrs
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
5 mos
Current Experience

Flexslot

Founder & CEO

Dec 2025 – Present · 5 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Remote

  • Founder of FlexSlot, a flexible booking platform designed to reduce no-shows and bring real-life flexibility to appointment-based businesses.
  • FlexSlot allows clients to release, trade, or reassign booked time slots, turning last-minute cancellations into opportunities for other customers to take those slots — helping barbers and service businesses keep schedules full without relying on punitive fees or overbooking.
  • The platform is built for:
  • solo barbers and independent professionals
  • multi-chair shops and teams
  • appointment-based service businesses that rely on time slots
  • FlexSlot’s scheduling and slot-exchange logic is patent-pending and was developed directly from repeated conversations with operators frustrated by rigid booking systems, underfunded credit-card no-show policies, and competitor ads appearing on their own booking pages.
  • FlexSlot operates as a separate Delaware C-Corp with a focused product scope, while maintaining a strategic relationship with Vetano to serve the same customer base without bloating the hiring platform.
Business OwnershipCEOsFounderProject ManagementProject Planning

Vetano

Founder & CEO

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · New York, United States · Remote

  • Vetano — A New Way to Hire
  • Vetano is a video-first hiring platform that replaces résumés, cover letters, and endless screening calls with short, verified skill videos. Employers hire with proof — not promises.
  • I lead Vetano's vision, fundraising, and product strategy to solve one of the biggest challenges in hiring: proving skill before the first interview.
  • Key highlights:
  • Launched Vetano across iOS and Android with verified video profiles and government-ID onboarding.
  • Partnered with barbershops, restaurants, and trade professionals to validate early demand and cut hiring time by over 60%.
  • Raised an angel round led by MLB World Champion Matt Barnes, with early traction from 1050+ verified users and growing.
  • Built a distributed team spanning product, design, and engineering; managing infrastructure on AWS, Neon, and Vercel.
  • Expanding into restaurant and service industries with pilot programs and affiliate partnerships.
Start-up LeadershipEarly Stage VenturesStart-up VenturesBusiness Ownership

Chronosphere

Technical Account Manager

May 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · New York, United States

  • Chronosphere is on a mission to redefine monitoring for the cloud-native world by providing the world’s most scalable, reliable and cost efficient monitoring platform.
ObservabilityPrometheus.ioMigration Projects

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Containers

Jun 2021 – Jan 2022 · 7 mos

  • I am a specialist in Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Elastic Container Service (ECS), and other container-based and serverless solutions.
Amazon EKSAmazon ECSKubernetesContainerization

Sr. Technical Account Manager

Jun 2019 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs

  • As a TAM, I support customers’ creative and transformative spirit of innovation across all technologies, including Compute, Storage, Database, Big Data, Application-level services, Networking, Serverless, and more. I am a principal technical advisor and ‘voice of the customer’ to organizations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 enterprises.
  • I help craft and execute strategies to drive our customers’ adoption and use of AWS services, including EC2, S3, DynamoDB & RDS databases, Lambda, CloudFront CDN, IoT, and many more. I have technical acumen and customer-facing skills to enable me to effectively represent AWS within a customer’s environment, and drive discussions with senior leadership regarding incidents, trade-offs, support and risk management.
  • I provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices, and proactively keep your customers’ AWS environments operationally healthy. The close relationships developed with my customers allow me to understand their business/operational needs and technical challenges, and help them achieve the greatest value from AWS.

Ecloud managed solutions, llc

Principal AWS Solutions Architect

Oct 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater New York City Area

  • Develops strategy, roadmap, best practices, and design for IT Infrastructure Cloud Engineering functions to drive improved cloud adoption and optimized computing solutions.
  • Directs and participates in the planning and implementation of IT Infrastructure cloud capabilities to ensure customers meet business needs.
  • Leads IT Infrastructure cloud engineering to ensure all systems are and operating optimally and well maintained.
  • Determines the best IT cloud solutions, processes and tools to ensure appropriate security, controls, visibility, and efficiencies.
  • Determines the best IT Infrastructure cloud technologies and processes to drive resilience, scalability, and efficiency.
  • Collaborate with customers to understand changing business needs and communicate IT Infrastructure Cloud Engineering initiatives.

Relus technologies

AWS Cloud Migration Engineer (Consultant)

Dec 2016 – Apr 2017 · 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Assist with migrating medium to large-scale datacenters to the AWS cloud
  • Primary area of focus are EC2, VPCs, Route53, ELB, IAM, ElastiCache, S3, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and Directory Service

Microsoft

Principal Active Directory Consultant (PwC)

Jun 2016 – Aug 2016 · 2 mos · Remote

  • Worked on architecting a solution to migrate 700+ applications to a new Greenfield AD environment for PwC.

Unitedhealth group

Principal Active Directory Architect

Sep 2015 – Dec 2015 · 3 mos · Remote

  • Worked on architecting a solution to migrate 450+ applications from various legacy domains to a Greenfield AD environment.

Ge

Active Directory Architect

Nov 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Remote

  • Worked on a massive AD project to consolidate and migrate a 90-forest, 380K user environment to a Greenfield AD environment.

Administrative office of the united states courts

Principal Active Directory Architect

May 2012 – Feb 2013 · 9 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Lead Active Directory SME at AOUSC for a 34K user, 412-forest AD consolidation project.

Maryland department of human resources (gantech)

Principal Active Directory Engineer

Oct 2011 – Apr 2012 · 6 mos · Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Lead Systems Engineer responsible for Enterprise Content Management Solution (ECMS) Active Directory security infrastructure, configuration, and support
  • Troubleshoot AD related issues in Development, Pilot, and Production environments
  • Created login scripts that installed .NET Framework and other software updates on
  • workstations that perform document retrieval and document reporting

Metlife

Principal Active Directory Architect

Jun 2011 – Sep 2011 · 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Worked on validating the Reference Architecture for consolidating 30-forest, 100K user AD/Exchange environment. Some of the tasks performed were:
  • Identifying the best placement of domain controllers to facilitate the trust relationship; including the FSMO role servers
  • Ensuring DC placement will handle anticipated authentication load
  • Identifying the AD Sites and Site Links required to properly support the trust relationship
  • Defining the DNS / WINS configurations needed to support the trust relationships
  • Proposing and validate a security and administration model to support the trust relationships
  • Recommend and validating a Trust model (Forest Trust v. Domain Trust)
  • Ensuring access to MS Exchange e-mail across the trust relationships
  • Identifying potential messaging capabilities and limitations for users in the non MS Exchange forest
  • Reviewing the implications of NAT for Active Directory
  • AD Subnet and Site Topology
  • AD Replication Topology
  • Network communication

Cloudemc2

Principal AWS Solutions Architect | Active Directory Architect SME | Founder

Jan 2008 – Jun 2024 · 16 yrs 5 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Customer Site Info: PwC – 200K users; United Healthcare – 350K users; General Electric – 380K users; MetLife – 100K users; Avon– 32K users; Customs and Border Protection – 68K users; Department of Energy – 35K users; Health and Human Services – 65K users; National Ocean Service – 2K users; Administrative Office for US Courts – 34K users
  • Managed over 16 AWS environments; $400K+ MRR
  • Microsoft Consultant at PwC; architecting a solution to migrate 700 application servers to a new Greenfield AD environment
  • Lead Active Directory Enterprise Architect at United Healthcare; migrating 450 applications from legacy domains
  • Active Directory Analyst at GE for a 380K user, 90-forest consolidation project
  • Lead Active Directory SME at AOUSC for a 34K user, 412-forest consolidation project
  • Active Directory SME for a 100K user, 30-forest, international consolidation/merger project
  • Solve Tier 3 Active Directory replication, slow login, and authentication issues
  • Performed an authoritative restore of a corrupted Active Directory and Sysvol in production
  • Discovered and resolved Active Directory security breaches
  • Performed many AD schema changes
  • Configure and optimize DNS, Active Directory sites, site links, GPOs, forest trusts, and FSMO
  • Developed specifications, designed, and implemented new e-mail filtering technologies
  • Documented a 30-page Active Directory Disaster Recovery plan for 68K users
  • Designed a Exchange 2003, 37-Server Infrastructure Design to migrate to Exchange 2010
  • Played a crucial role in the design of a 35K-user Exchange 2003 infrastructure:
  • Documented and tested a Disaster Recovery plan for a 65K user Active Directory
  • Managed 70 Domain Controllers, DNS, DHCP, and WINS, servers
Start-up VenturesCloud Architecture

U.s. customs and border protection

Principal Active Directory/Exchange Architect

May 2007 – Jun 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Solved Tier 3 Active Directory replication, slow login, and authentication issues
  • Performed many AD schema changes
  • Configured and optimized DNS, Active Directory sites, site links, GPOs, forest trusts, and FSMO roles
  • Developed specifications, designed, and implemented new e-mail filtering technologies
  • Documented a 30-page Active Directory Disaster Recovery plan for 68,000 users
  • Documented a Exchange 2003, 37-Server Infrastructure Design to migrate to Exchange 2010
  • Documented, tested, and recommended Active Directory & Exchange technologies

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