Chris Kemp

Chris Kemp is a cloud architect, innovator, and entrepreneur with experience developing software in a number of languages. The bulk of his development experience is with PHP, Java, and the Salesforce Platform. He started a software development consultancy, Vandelay Enterprises, at the age of 15, developing applications, mostly on the LAMP stack, for customers around the world. Chris then moved to the fast-growing Toronto start-up, I Love Rewards (now Achievers), where he developed rewards and recognition software in PHP and Java, before joining Salesforce.com.

Chris currently works out of Salesforce.com's Toronto office, as a Senior Solution Engineer on the Advanced Technical Solutions team, an international team of trusted pre-sales advisors and architects. He is the worldwide leader of the Heroku Ambassador group, a team of leading Heroku experts in the company. Chris has developed a number of open source projects in Apex and Visualforce, including the wildly popular Cloud Swarm application. He is a named inventor on seven patent applications for innovations developed at Salesforce.com.

Chris holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science (Software Engineering specialist, 0T4) from the University of Toronto.