Chris Stein Email & Phone Number

Leawood, KS, US

San Jose, CA, US

- Technical lead on the Service Discovery team for Cisco SBG, utilizing HashiCorp Consul- Implemented changes to deploy Consul servers to self-hosted Kubernetes clusters instead of AWS ECS- Developed a no-downtime process to make subnet changes to AWS NLBs utilized by ECS clusters- Introduced Terragrunt to help DRY Terraform config- Automated the process.

Leawood, KS, US

- Redesigned network connectivity between corporate offices and cloud providers to utilize BGP, peered AWS Transit Gateways, and AWS DirectConnect, reducing RTT between some sites by more than 50%- Deployed self-hosted HashiCorp Vault to implement Kubernetes secret injection and time-boxed database credentials- Implemented Kubernetes Actions Runner.

Leawood, KS, US

- Heavily utilized Terraform to manage cloud infrastructure in five different regions across AWS, AWS China, GCP, and Azure cloud providers- Contributed changes to upstream kOps repository to use kOps to self-host Kubernetes in AWS China before EKS was available- Worked with engineering teams to deploy new services, including creation of Docker images.

Leawood, KS, US

Leawood, KS, US

I’m on a team responsible for managing C2FO’s in-house deployment system, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, monitoring, and logging services in three different regions across multiple cloud providers. Automated bi-weekly Linux VM updates with Ansible.

Kansas City, MO, US

Responsible for all things sponsors + other things that need attention to help throw a great conference. Main sponsorship responsibilities include:- Create and publish conference prospectus- Handle all sponsor communication and set expectations- Create sponsor placement / booth layout- Create day-of FAQ guide for sponsors- Plan sponsor promotional speaking.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

• My team's main focus is in creating, improving, and supporting our infrastructure self-service capabilities, as well as teaching other associates within the infrastructure org about software development best practices.
• project management
• maintaining client relationships
• developing others
• troubleshooting and Linux administration

Kansas City, Missouri, US

After becoming the lead over the network monitoring and solutions team, I still mentored new and existing associates, provided justifications for new purchases, and helped manage and delegate work to the team. I was also asked to leave my current team and start a new team within the infrastructure group focused on automation. Since this was a new team, I.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

In addition to the same responsibilities as my previous role, I provided justification for new licensing and support purchases for monitoring and other networking solutions. I also mentored new associates on internal policies, solution architectures and troubleshooting best practices. I helped architect and implement an open source monitoring solution.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

Administered and improved network monitoring and network compliance tools. Implemented new monitoring requirements, system integrations, automations, and developed custom monitoring tools to fill gaps in enterprise tools. Monitoring included traditional LAN environments as well as optical WAN environments.Also implemented and supported HP Network.

Columbia, MO, US

Teaching assistant for Visual Basic computer science class. Included holding bi-weekly office hours and teaching two lab classes, sized 25-30.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

Assisted in installing, connecting, and configuring new network hardware. Created network Visio diagrams and managed the upgrade and deployment of EasyIP.