Christopher Gooley

Christopher Gooley is an actor and technology professional who splits his time between New York City and Los Angeles.1 He currently works as the Principal Architect leading software engineering efforts on the Immunomics team in the Healthcare Research group at Microsoft.2

In his role at Microsoft, Gooley focuses on building systems to enable rapid and reliable machine learning exploration. He aims to abstract the mechanics of data manipulation, code quality, and compute management to allow machine learning experts to focus on innovation.2

Prior to joining Microsoft Research, Gooley led a team at Spotify building tools to help product owners and data scientists generate novel hypotheses for user behavior and construct causality experiments. This work was an extension of techniques developed at Preact, a technology company that he co-founded, which was later acquired by Spotify.2

In addition to his technology career, Gooley has a background in acting and voiceover work. He has received training from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC, attended a summer program at the Juilliard School, and earned a BFA in Theatre Arts from Five Towns College. He also holds an MA in Educational Theatre from New York University and an MFA in Acting from Long Island University.1

Gooley is also an investor for the Broadway show Moulin Rouge.1 While the query mentions his role as an Advisor at Elvie AI, this information was not directly confirmed in the provided search results. However, Elvie.ai is described as a company featuring a pre-trained large language model that powers autonomous AI-powered role-play, personalized training, and team insights.3