Chris Huynh
Chris Huynh Ops & Manufacturing Advisor, Consumer Products

Hi, I'm Chris.
I help manufacture products at scale.

For 30 years I've taken consumer products from prototypes to “we make thousands per day.” Now I help growing businesses do the same.

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I've seen zero-to-scale

What does it take to turn an early product into something a factory can make thousands of, reliably and at cost?

I'm Chris Huynh. I've spent my career helping companies make great products at scale.

As a kid, I practically lived in my father's machine shop, around the hum of lathes and mills. I cut my teeth at IBM and Seagate, where I led a first-to-market storage product that drove $900M in revenue. Since then, it's been a run of scaling startups: from 3D printers to the most-awarded smart baby monitor on the market at Nanit.

I've taken apart each of the 40+ products I helped launch. I've grown teams from 2 → 80, mapped every detail of a factory floor, and shipped millions of units into customers' hands.

Today, I advise a few clients at a time, getting them fast answers to the sticky questions that come with scale:

  • Who should manufacture this, and how do we work with them?
  • Can my product even be mass-produced?
  • What's actually going wrong when the product fails?
  • How do we go from 100 to 1,000 a month? 10,000? 100,000?
  • Who do we hire to pull it off?

My style is earnest and straight to the point. You don't need to know the jargon—CMs, DFM, yield, UPH, EVT, PVT… You just need to be serious about making your thing and getting it to people who'll love it.

If that's you, tell me what you're building.

Chris Chris Huynh, chris@chuynh.com
Advisory and fractional — Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

Ask people I've worked with

“In hardware the trickiest thing is finding a leader who can help design, source materials, select a CM, negotiate with the supply chain and oversee all of the above. Chris was that and more… I'd work with Chris again in a second.”

Mark SusterPartner, Upfront Ventures

“Chris quite literally saved this company more than once. When we were stuck at under 200 cameras a month out of a struggling Texas line, he had a China line producing 200 a day within five months.”

Tor IvryCofounder & CTO, Nanit

“Chris built the lean manufacturing model that took us from garage-style production to scalable output—work that helped us raise funding. If you're trying to get hardware from prototype to real production, Chris is who you want.”

David HoseFounder & CEO, Soundwall

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Tell me about your product, progress, and where you're stuck.

Two machinists at work on a lathe in a workshop, in a black-and-white print from the 1970s
My father's machine shop in Qui Nhơn, Vietnam, where I learned what it takes to make things.