Chris Testa

Chief Technology Officer at System1

Los Angeles County, California, United States

About Chris Testa

Chris Testa is Chief Technology Officer at System1. Location: Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Hands-on technology executive with 19+ years of experience building and scaling large-scale distributed systems, leading engineering organizations, and shipping AI-driven products. Deep expertise in agentic AI systems, multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, and enterprise platform architecture. Currently leading ~75 engineers as CTO, while personally architecting and building production systems using Claude Code, Cursor, and multi-agent workflows. Background spans Google Search infrastructure, ad tech at scale (billions of daily interactions), M&A technical integration, and hardware/software co-design.

Skills

  • Software Engineering
  • Leadership
  • Distributed Systems

Additional experience

  • Vice President of Engineering

    System1

    February 2021 – April 2025

Education

  • Computer Engineering, University of Maryland