Chris Robertson Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Milpitas, California, Us

BVA is focus on providing the three core pillars of any company's success; talent, expertise, and funding. My role at BVA is to work with portfolio companies and provide deep technical expertise around systems, storage, and security.Some clients include; NVIDIA, Blade, Frame, and Scalyr.

San Jose, California, Us

Building next-generation cloud hosting, observability, and orchestration for the premier Zero-Trust-as-a-Service platform.

San Mateo, California, Us

DevOps, SRE, AWS... the usual.

San Francisco, California, Us

San Mateo, California, Us

Mountain View, California, Us

First DevOps/SRE hire. Grew the team from 0 -> 5 spread across US and Serbia. - Technical Project lead on In-Q-Tel funded work to bring Frame to the US Intelligence Community - Deployed Frame backend AWS Gov Cloud instance and integrated Azure to primary AWS based public cloud instance. - Hands-on lead for enterprise customer integrations dealing with complex global enterprise networks and systems. - Successfully shepherded the company through SOC 2 audits including the building of all required policy and procedure documentation.While at BVA I also served as an advisor to Frame until Frame's acquisition by Nutanix.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

First dedicated DevOps/SRE resource for the company. While there I: - Built the platform automation - Wrote/implemented security policy compliant with all relevant banking and IT security standards

Foster City, Ca, Us

- Manage all aspects of Technical Operations and Corporate IT- Lead Facilities for ~2 years- Recruit/rebuild and manage team of 5 FTE plus 3 contractors- Rebuild working relationships between Ops team and wider company- Improve platform availability from ~99% to > 99.99%- Implement globally load balanced service delivery platform supporting >8M requests/min and 1.5TB/day of raw data to be processed.- Support/extend/tune > 3.5PB of Hadoop clusters- Designed/deployed custom multi-PB storage architecture

A new twist on an old need. Probably won't change the world but will definitely change companies bottom line.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Manage all aspects of Technical Operations and Corporate IT- Recruit and manage team of 2-3 contractors- Migrate production data center from Texas to CA with zero downtime- Ground-up re-design and implementation of complete production environment support ~300% growth in 18 months- Write/implement dynamic system build platform supporting a hybrid cloud platform- Deployed globally load balanced mobile advertising platform supporting 10,000+ requests/sec

Mountain View, Ca, Us

- Part of early stage mobile video calling start-up experiencing extremely rapid growth (+50k new users per day).- Grew backend systems to support 10x user growth in 4 months (to 10 million users)- Responsible for all aspects of IT at various points (DB, Network, Security, Helpdesk, etc).

- Global ownership of Linux infrastructure, security, privacy, and IT compliance activity- Designed new DR datacenter using current best practices for energy efficiency - Led ground-up implementation of Linux platform- Lead MySQL DBA- Implementation and ongoing management of company-wide change management process/system- Client contract approval on all security and privacy clauses- Roll-out of company security policies based on ISO 27000 series standards, PCI-DSS compliance

San Mateo, California, Us

- Helped design high density, very low cost, COTS storage “pod” (and hand built the prototype)- Provide guidance on general tech operations and architecture- See the storage pod at http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/25/fallout-of-the-backblaze-storage-pod-post/

San Carlos, Ca, Us

- Interim - Own all IT operations (corporate and SaaS)- Operational support of MS SQL Server 2005- IT project management

Redwood Shores, Ca, Us

- Build out IT staffing and infrastructure at early stage startup.- Own all IT operations (corporate and SaaS)- Launch Co-Location facility/hosted service offering and support company HQ move- As need arose Oracle/SQL Server DBA, desktop support, network engineer, systems administrator- Recruit and manage team of 4

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- Maintain 24x7 network architecture at multiple sites- Development and implement Security Policy- Project Management

La Verne, California, Us

- Manage day to day IT operations supporting all academic computing servers/workstations/labs- Manage main campus and 7 remote remote campus across Southern and Central California- Lead systems administrator for Windows and Novell servers- Network engineer for all academic computing resources (HP, Cisco, Extreme)- Recruit and manage team of 2 FTE + 6-9 part-time student employees