Chris Gilmer Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

With Lucasfilm Info Systems I am responsible for AWS Architecture, workflow tooling, and development experience. I support several internal applications and help move internal workloads to the cloud. I constantly look for ways to automate the development experience, integrate useful tools, and help developers find "flow" in their daily work. I continue to work with developers, even holding weekly Cloud Office Hours, to support their immediate questions and to track long-term projects.My primary projects are Atris and Slate. Atris is the Lucasfilm digital asset management and secure file sharing system used to store, review and distribute content during productions, including artwork, scripts, reference photos/videos, working files, and dailies/cuts. Atris also acts as the active archive for future reference once a project has fully wrapped. Slate is used internally to track personnel assigned to different projects.For my job I write infrastructure code with terraform, packer and ansible. The application code I write is in python, javascript, and bash. I interface with engineers, support and customers to help develop custom solutions to internal projects and problems. Among services I help maintain include our terraform registry, pypi server, gitlab service, and an AWS AMI and container image-building system. At Lucasfilm we build the technology that our teams and partners need to succeed. This can mean supporting multiple projects in different technology domains, on multiple platforms like MacOS and Linux, and across local datacenters and AWS.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14451697/

Washington, D.C., Virginia, Us

As part of CDAO I participate in knowledge transfer, technical support, advisement on new projects, and help in discovery sprints for various DoD related technical activities.With CDAO I consult on multiple projects including the Responsible AI Initiative and for future Data Mesh projects.

Washington, Dc, Us

The Defense Digital Service is a team of highly talented industry professionals dedicated to improving the technology platform of the Department of Defense. We focus on high-impact projects that advance the Department of Defense's most important initiatives that are critical to the well-being of service members, civilians, and core operations of the Department.At DDS I am the lead cloud engineer for the portfolio of projects. I managed more than 40 AWS accounts and consulted on cloud scaling, architecture and security. When I'm not managing infrastructure I'm writing code for server-side and distributed data projects. My projects have included security for DoD open source, integration of Protective DNS, and Counter UAS data development. I consult on data lake architectures and data pipelines for our portfolio of data intensive projects.In collaboration with USDS and other federal agencies I worked to recommend new guidelines on the acquisition and management of cloud services based on consumption and recommended the practice of Financial Operations (FinOps) to become a key driver in that process.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

TrussWorks is a consulting agency that helps develop best-in-class software and infastructure products by working hand-in-hand with our partners in the commercial and government sectors. As part of the team I've lead application and infrastructure & security teams for the DoD in partnership with US TRANSCOM and the Defense Digital Service (DDS). On the MilMove project (my.move.mil) I helped build and deliver the application code, the build pipeline, the testing frameworks, load testing, container orchestration, and deployment to AWS resources. As a senior engineer I've been involved in architecture development from its inception to design and then implementation. I also managed the project's Interim Authority To Test (IATT) and Authorization to Operate (ATO) processes as the lead contact for Truss while working with US TRANSCOM's J6X and partners at MITRE. While delivering on application and infrastructure I've continued to do open source work in terraform and golang tooling on behalf of Truss. I also train and mentor folks both on my team and across the company. Management is another role I hold at Truss and help with engineers in both application and infrastructure.

Tend is a technology company focused on the remote monitoring and control of industrial and collaborative robots. As VP of Engineering at Tend, I helped integrate and interface robots to work seamlessly with our IoT device and web application. I personally integrated robots and cameras with on-site IoT devices, designed a robust microservice stack and messaging protocol, and built the cloud and testing infrastructures. I owned a large part of the architectural work and technical stack.More specifically I developed an IoT solution for talking with multiple robots, cameras, and accessories. This system was built and deployed with docker. These microservices talked to each other over a redis pub-sub channel and reported back to our node backend using websockets. Updating the IoT devices was done via a combination of docker-compose and a custom tool for deploying and updating docker containers written in python3.I managed the backend cloud stack using AWS Cloudformation and did all provisioning using Ansible. I developed the packaging/test/deployment architecture for our IoT devices which were running Linux. This included using tools like Packer, Vagrant, Ansible, and CircleCI. I also built out the internal toolsets for making custom Debian, python, and NPM packages.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Dotloop is a technology company changing the face of real estate transactions. At Dotloop I worked on the Technical Operations Team building and scaling the AWS infrastructure powering our application. I help in every part of the stack, from building raw AWS resources to doing highly complicated infrastructure integrations with AWS Cloudformation while also participating on the on-call DevOps response team.I introduced to Dotloop and implemented configuration management with Ansible and AWS Cloudformation (using troposphere). I created reproduce-able environments, sandboxes for infrastructure development, and better security auditing. I enabled multi-region support for the company in AWS using these tools approximately 1 year ahead of schedule for the rollout of the multi-region disaster recovery plan.I migrated the companies Hardware Security Module (HSM) across AWS regions with no data loss and no downtime while providing increased transaction speeds. I created a previously unavailable test environment for development with the HSM and managed signing certificates while preventing service disruption through each certificate renewal period.I implemented security auditing using AWS Lambda, CloudWatch Events, and S3 to help our Security Team. I deployed the Anemometer service for MySQL auditing slow query logs using Ansible and AWS RDS, Lambda, and S3.Finally, I built and implemented a password sharing service using AWS API Gateway, Lambda, KMS, DynamoDB, and CloudWatch Events. Tied this together with AWS CloudFormation (using troposphere). Wrote the web app using React JS.

Counsyl is a technology company that strives to give millions of men and women access to vital information about their bodies to help them confidently make choices about their lives. As the Director of the Technical Operations Team I managed the Systems Administration, Network, and IT Helpdesk Teams. Together we managed the infrastructure of the company for all internal customers from high performance computing (HPC) to mobile device management (MDM) and everything in between. My teams provided stability and security so the company could scale.My team developed and deployed a completely refreshed high performance compute cluster built with the Bright Operating System. It is backed by a robust, shared-nothing architecture on top of Object Based Storage (SwiftStack). I refreshed and replaced nearly all our network technology with brand new Cisco gear to meet the high performance and stability needs of the business. With my network engineers we eliminated all single-point-of-failure systems and provided a high availability network across three separate locations.With the IT department we deployed a Shoretel based VOIP system for the Customer Success, Executive, and Sales teams with integration to Salesforce. This improved integration improved our sales and customer experience numbers.I built the Technical Operations Department from scratch in 2015, hiring 4 employees and 2 contractors. I helped build out the IT Department at 5 people. I managed about $2M in CapEx/OpEx annually for both 2015 and 2016.

Counsyl is a technology company that strives to give millions of men and women access to vital information about their bodies to help them confidently make choices about their lives. As a Sr. Software Developer on the Platform Team I worked in many different roles in the Software Engineering Org. I developed web services and interfaces to control automation devices from barcode scanners to robotic arms as part of the Automation team. For each service I built drivers that talked in XMLRPC, light-weight flask/django servers with REST APIs, and django/node apps for each.I developed an electronic funds disbursement python library as part of our Billing and Business Logic team. This allowed us to talk with the Bank of America on a nightly basis to square accounts. This tool helped the company reimburse $250K in back payments to customers.I contributed to the core services and tools that the company relied on as part of the Platform Team. This included building out the central log aggregation service using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK). I deployed the company's first server and application monitoring code to manage our systems using New Relic. I helped replace custom continuous integration and deployment systems with more standard tools. I built out our core configuration management tools with Puppet and Fabric.I managed the compute (virtual and physical), storage, and network infrastructure resources at all three of our colocation facilities. I was a part of the on-call and emergency response team at Counsyl which I responded to all software system outages at the company. I also was a part of the deployment team that regularly deployed our stack.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Pandora Radio is the leading internet radio service for discovering and playing music. As part of their Systems Administration Team I develop internal tools for systems management, from internal REST API services to media replication software.I developed media replication software to quickly move terabytes of advertising and music media files across our network to locations across the United States and New Zealand. This relied heavily on python and rsync in custom Debian packages.I developed internal service REST APIs using Bottlepy and SQLAlchemy for systems management and communication. Additionally I built internal dashboards using AngularJS that help manage these systems via the APIs. The outcome was better management of our cloud assets, including servers, hard drives, and network equipment.I wrote new internal Debian packaging tools for managing custom internal software and configuration packages. This includes mirroring with Reprepro and building with Pbuilder. I deployed our internal Debian Repo Mirror and working on our internal Python Repo Mirror.Using Python I developed networking tools, Elasticsearch tools, and monitoring tools.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Rackspace Hosting is the service leader in cloud computing providing Fanatical Support to customers and partners across a portfolio of IT hosted services. As part of their Cloud Technologies Group I write code for the integrated cloud management panel for servers, load balancers, files and DNS.Developed software in Python and Twisted to facilitate asynchronous actions and communication to OpenStack APIs via the Apache Libcloud library and directly via proxy resources. Participated in discussions of panel architecture and service decisions to advance our product and increase our competitive business edge.Deployed code to production using a Continuous Integration method whereby code was merged, deployed, and monitored by each engineer on the team. Participated in incident resolution for the product in its staging and production environments, including both on-call and off-call situations.Wrote unit and integration tests to ensure the stability of our underlying software architecture and design choices. Built out the integrated logging system on the server side and monitored our operations using Graylog.Contributed to open source projects like Apache Libcloud. Participated in open source hackdays with technologies like Node.js, Elasticsearch, and Twisted.

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

RED is an award-winning independent interactive agency focused on creating exceptional user experiences.Lead teams through design and development with our clients to deliver complex interactive web applications Built applications in Python using Django and Tornado along with a variety of other web technologies Designed and tested web applications that scaled to 150,000+ concurrent users with an intense focus around launch-day capacity success Initiated, designed and implemented a module for deploying RED projects to the AWS EC2 Cloud Projects I worked on have been awarded over a dozen individual awards from top design and technology groups Contributed technically to various internal development projects and tools (http://www.github.com/ff0000/)

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Burning Man Playa Info Directory 2010Django based application written in under 48 hours by myself and two friends as volunteers. The Playa Info Directory service was built to provide a directory of persons attending the Burning Man event and to track associated camps, artwork, events and rideshares. Served between 15,000 and 20,000 people over the week of the event in the desert with no reliable internet connection. In less than 3 weeks total time it replaced a system that failed to be delivered by developers who had nearly 11 months of build time. The development was purely voluntary and deployed successfully on site for the event using donated computers and other hardware.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

EPOXI (EPOch and DIXI) Mission testbed lead for encounter with Comet Hartley 2. http://epoxi.umd.edu/Updated and implemented operational procedures for the EPOch and DIXI (EPOXI) mission testbed. These were written in ReStructured Text and compiled using Sphinx, a python module that allowed me to publish the content in html online and in hard copy PDF. Built a mission specific Python library to manage the testbed startup, testing, and shutdown activities while improving test efficiency and reducing downtime between individual procedures. This library helped to improve logging, error checking, and code consistency in the testbed while providing additional documentation for the internal processes of the testing environment.Built a Django website to support testbed reporting replacing the original PHP website that was deprecated. Without access to the original MySQL database or the original website code I used BeautifulSoup to read each test entry from the old webpage forms, recompile the data, and push it into a new database without losing a single record.Ran operational scripts in preparation for the EPOXI encounter with comet Hartley 2.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

ATHELTE (All-Terrain Hex-Limbed Extra-Terrestrial Explorer)http://youtu.be/Sz024ENb3ksProposed and developed a wearable joystick used to operate JPLs ATHLETE robot. The devices use the Nintendo Wii Nunchuck as an input, giving operators an intuitive, ergonomic and inexpensive way to interact with the robot during point-to-point movement and field tests in desert environments. Constructed, tested, and produced six remote joysticks. The entire project came in 40% under budget and was delivered a month in advance of the need date. Delivered JAVA and C libraries for handling the device output and integration into ATHLETE.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/Developed C++ Object Oriented oceanic altimetry product database for OSTM/Jason2 and Jason1/1B missions with over 30K lines of code successfully developed and tested to replace aging, decade old software. Developed a suite of software tools that integrated with the database to perform scientific analysis and to extend the capabilities of the software being replaced. The resulting product performed the similar tasks with a 5X improvement in speed, a more modular and extendable design, and had better storage capacity. The resulting code library is extensible and modular for code re-use in other code products. Code was submitted for a New Technology Review in June 2011 meaning NASA may consider this software patentable intellectual property Extended the software to manage legacy mission data products, such as TOPEX/Poseidon and GEOSAT, as well as non-altimetry data missions such as GRACE for gravity data. This required extending the software to manage not just repeat-track missions but also non-repeat-track data, opening the door to use the same software in future earth- science missions.Provided detailed documentation for developers and users using doxygen.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/Owned testing procedures and provided analysis for the rover motor control systems. This involved testing flight software commands in both flight-like and non-flight-like environments, recording data, and writing reports on motor performance. Interfaced directly with the Flight Software Team to determine the root cause of critical motor errors and to fully understand the latest software release command changes so we could provide actionable feedback to the development team. Assisted the Cruise team in flight software testing by running procedures and integrating flight and non-flight hardware in the test bed. Scripted test procedures in Python to interface with the flight software adding vital configuration management discipline for testing that needed to be performed repeatedly or over several days by different operators. It streamlined the procedures saving multiple hours in the testing environment. Developed software to convert python test procedures to LaTeX and PDF formats to meet strict project documentation and archiving requirements, again streamlining the existing process.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Paged books, government documents, films and microfiche for library patrons. Sorted, moved, and shelved books for library reorganization project while earning my Masters Degree.

Falls Church, Va, Us

SBIRS Integration and Verification Engineer:Worked in both DoD Secret and Top Secret clearance environmentsCompleted tests and integration of ground system software objectives. This involved both the understanding and validation of requirements when testing the software in simulated environments. Often this returned results about software inefficiency or failure to meet specific flight requirements.Wrote and executed software test plans and procedures to be used by my team when testing the software.-----SBIRS Systems Engineer:Responsible for system level requirements analysis and developmentDeveloped and vetted ground system security requirements to meet military specifications

Boulder, Colorado, Us

Worked with laser and optical systems. Rapid prototyping of apparatus and fixtures for these systems, specifically using milling machines and aluminum. Also did computer simulations.

Reston, Virginia, Us

• Systems Engineering Intern and Hardware testing team engineer• Redrew handwritten system schematics and organized them for version control• Code debugging in C using Clear Case and Clear View

Ms, Aerospace Engineering

Bs, Aerospace Engineering

Ba, Astronomy