Chris Fregly is a performance engineer and AI product leader who has driven innovations at Netflix, Databricks, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and multiple startups. He has led performance-focused engineering teams that built AI/ML products, scaled go-to-market initiatives, and reduced cost for large-scale generative-AI and analytics workloads. Chris is coauthor of the O’Reilly books Data Science on AWS and Generative AI on AWS, and creator of the O’Reilly course “High-Performance AI in Production with NVIDIA GPUs.” His work spans kernel-level tuning, compiler-driven acceleration, distributed training, and high-throughput inference. Chris is the organizer of the global AI Performance Engineering meetup with over 100,000 members worldwide.