Chris Elion

Chris Elion is a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience in various roles across multiple companies. Currently serving as a Principal Software Engineer at Splight since May 2025, Chris previously worked as a Software Engineer at Standard Fleet and held the position of Senior Staff Software Engineer at Equilibrium Energy. Prior roles include Senior Software Engineer at Zipline, where Chris redesigned a drone flight planning system and championed best practices in Python development, and Senior Software Engineer in Machine Learning Systems at Unity Technologies, leading the development of the Unity ML-Agents Toolkit. Educational achievements include a B.S. in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Caltech and an M.A. in Applied Mathematics from UCLA.