Christopher Kruse Email & Phone Number

Cary, Nc, Us

Mountain View, California, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Embedded DevOps Engineer for service teams to help facilitate migrations from Terraform into an AWS CDK-based SDLC tool called "Menu Card".Quickly became part of the Menu Card core team, and helped drive new features into the product, while also serving as a quick sounding board and code reviewer.Contracted to Autodesk through Capstone Staffing.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Owned and lead development for our software catalog and developer tools platform built on Backstage - Promoted a Self-service registration to the platform, with ~150 services registered - Promoted deeper use of the catalog features, like CI/CD visualization and hosted documentation - API-powered automatic dependency tracking for incident processes- Maintained a suite of GitHub Actions and reusable workflows to streamline steps in the CI/CD process for services- Assisted in launching Argo CD for managing Kubernetes deployments using GitOps-style deployment management- Managed and maintained the internal GitHub Enterprise Server and JFrog Artifactory installations

New York, Ny, Us

* Built a custom deployment pipeline for AWS CDK via AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild (prior to the release of CDK Pipelines)* Developed internal tooling to help with context sharing between teams, and log and track privilege access requests to restricted environments* Served as a reference point for EDI usage, having previously used it in the healthcare field* Built multiple revisions of parsers for EDI data, learning from each implementation how to generalize the parser, casting an ever-wider net for customer usage patterns* Helped foster a culture of toil reduction, driving to automate repetitive, manual tasks* Participated in code reviews, helping improve the quality of the delivered products* Built a mechanism for handling semantic versioning of package releases, while maintaining branch protection for the main branch of our repositories* Created build and deploy scripts across several packages, introducing performance improvements and lowering build and deploy times

Building software for the AWS Support team, and building tooling to make life easier for the developers on my team. Resposible for tooling, automation and making day-to-day operations as smooth as possible.

I help create infrastructure solutions for K-12 and Higher Education groups, so that they can solve their problems efficiently.

Supporting the Elastic Beanstalk team to help customers easily launch their applications into the cloud, using tried-and-true Amazon architecture patterns to support scaling, uptime and security.

I assist customers with issues they have regarding AWS Services. Specializing in the deployment services (Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, and OpsWorks), I help walk them through setup, operations and architectural issues.Additionally, I co-lead a small internal team which builds and maintains applications that make the standard Support Engineer's job easier. We handle some browser-based enhancement scripts (GreaseMonkey), as well as scripts which retrieve and correlate customer interaction data and Support Engineer skills and focuses, to assure the most correct engineer gets the right customer.

Kirkland, Washington, Us

Built and maintained features for a set of websites which serve as lead generation for online colleges.Built a faceted search system using Rails and Sphinx as a backend.

Building custom workflow and business rule maps to process Health Care claim transactions. In addition, building custom applications to assist in that processing, including a full report generation system. The product is a claims routing system that allows for processing of multiple data formats from various submitters to a single format to be presented to the insurance payer.Initiated an iterative deployment system for product customization and delivery to the payer.

Using .NET and the DotNetNuke Platform/CMS, built customized websites for social groups and communities throughout the midwest.Wrote custom mobile applications, using the Android, iPhone, Blackberry, and Palm SDKs, which tied into the websites created for the above communities.Assisted with the progeny of StreetJaw, a location-based advertising platform for communities.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Migrated portions of the Munitions Transport Management System (MTMS) from a Java 1.1 codebase to Java 6, bringing the system to current standards.Added Usability and performance upgrades to the existing system, on both the Desktop application and web site.

Dubuque, Ia, Us

Designed, Built and Implemented an application which was used to assist in HIV Data Mining research. The system used a self-designed OWL Ontology as a back-end to handle relationships between semantic data types.

Dubuque, Ia, Us

Monitor the Computer Labs on campus to keep everything running smoothly.

As part of the McKesson intern program, I worked with the R&D group at RelayHealth building real-time enablement systems for healthcare providers and payors using a J2EE stack, and helped build a Continuity of Care Record system in .NET and Adobe Flex.

* Handling incoming Interlibrary Loan requests from Clarke students / faculty* Transmitting documents either electronically or through mail from Clarke to other libraries around the world* Handling requests for Clarke's materials from other libraries* Auditing the records of materials sent and received

Bs, Computer Science

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