Christopher Ries

Product Leader | Privacy, AI, Blockchain

Austin, Texas, United States

About

Experienced product and engineering leader who specializes in bringing new technology products to market. Successful track record of building products with both domestic and international teams that challenge the boundaries of “defined markets” with emphasis on reducing system performance and streamlining user-interfaces. Inventor of multiple patents at the intersection of AI and cloud security: Honeypots for infrastructure-as-a-service security (Patent: 11750651) Entropy-based classification of human and digital entities (Patent: 11288111)

Experience

  • Principal Product Manager at Circle
    Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

    Leading privacy, post quantum, and MEV products for Arc, Circle’s blockchain platform. Contributed to the ARC token design.

  • Co-Founder at Orbit
    Dec 2024 - Oct 2025 · 11 mos

    Orbit is an AI assistant for DeFi tasks. It offers a chat-based interface which lowers technical barriers and gives users a more effective way to communicate the DeFi task that they would like completed. Orbit's multi-agent system is able to interpret the user’s objective and help offload the planning and execution of DeFi tasks offering greater convenience. Backed by Alliance.

  • Co-Founder at SphereOne
    Dec 2021 - Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    SphereOne is a one-click checkout that allows users to make purchases with any cryptocurrency across any blockchain. Raised $2.5M from institutional investors and angels.

  • Oracle (San Jose, California)
    • Group Product Manager
      Mar 2019 - Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Designated with the task of bringing to market multiple native cloud security offerings for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Success in this role entails the following product areas: 1. Complete ownership of OCI Vault, a ubiquitous secrets management service to securely store and manage passwords, certificates, auth tokens, etc. 2. Complete ownership of OCI Threat Intelligence Service, a platform that provides service teams and security administrators additional forensics data which helps in investigating and remediating cloud security incidents found in OCI 3. Complete ownership of OCI Data Loss Prevention, a native service that detects sensitive data in object storage, block storage, file storage, etc. and offers a robust defense-in-depth framework to prevent data exfiltration. 4. Partial ownership of OCI Cloud Guard, a cloud security posture management service that helps customers detect misconfigured resources and insecure user activity on the OCI platform 5. Construct an intuitive user interface from scratch for security services spanning across a multitude of personas

    • Senior Product Manager
      Mar 2018 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Within the Oracle Cloud Security product offering I am currently tasked with owning the following areas and respective teams: 1. Data Science & Machine Learning (DS/ML) for Risk-based UEBA 2. Threat Intelligence/Analytics 3. Oracle CASB Service Front-end UI/UX 4. Oracle CASB Integration with OCI (IaaS) Oracle OpenWorld 2018 Visionary and Product Keynote Speaker: The Basics of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for IT Security.

  • Product Manger at F5 Networks
    Jun 2016 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

    1. Provided a holistic assessment of security product portfolios utilizing the GE McKinsey Model Analysis for senior leadership; resulting in company roadmap re-alignment and an updated M&A strategy. 2. Drove the increase in Android and iOS user-bases by 32% and 90% year-over-year through UI/UX and branding transitioning of the F5 Edge Client (formerly) to F5 Access SSL VPN clients. 3. Realized new revenue streams through direct oversight of ADAL, OFBA, and ADFS Proxy authentication use-cases. 4. Managed IAM partnerships with Microsoft, VMware, & IBM.