Christopher L. Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Hired to lead the Infra Ops Engineering team at Kiddom!

Boise, Idaho, Us

I was hired to staff and manage an Agile/Scrum technical team, the Platform Engineering - Developer Infrastructure Team. Our goal is to support, train, and have stewardship over processes and tools to enable engineers on software engineering teams to develop safe, secure, and efficient processes for every step in their software development lifecycle. My team owns the CI/CD pipeline tooling (Github/Jenkins), testing infrastructure (L1-L4 + testing tools), artifact storage and lifecycle use (Jfrog Artifactory, AWS Codeartifact, AWS ECR, etc.), Docker (Image testing, image security, standards and best practices), security tooling (Snyk/FOSSID, Gitlab/Github SAST scanning, open source license scanning and enforcement) , as well as developer productivity tooling efforts such as implementing waterfall RBAC permission schemas from Workday -> OKTA SAML applications.My team has a mandate to create, investigate, maintain, and provide self service tooling for CI/CD pipelines on Github/Jenkins to enable automated continuous delivery pipelines that allow engineering teams to make quick and repeatable deployments as often they desire. We also supported extensive testing efforts across all stages of the SDLC+CI/CD pipeline.My team is responsible for writing and maintaining processes, providing documentation, engineer training, and hands on help that allow all engineers to understand and utilize the portfolio of tools and processes the Developer Experience team owns.The team was pivotal in efforts to become FEDRAMP medium level and later planning for FEDRAMP high level compliance across the company.

San Francisco, California, Us

Hired as a lead onto the Productivity Engineering team to work on all third party and custom tools developers use during the SDLC. Was first hired to stabilize and then replace custom integration and deployment tooling and infrastructure to speed up development and to move toward a microservice based Kubernetes infrastructure.Implemented initial Kubernetes infrastructure for next gen microservices with Devops team. Led Devops/Tools teams over the course of two years to migrate all legacy infrastructure and code to Kubernetes. In addition all new code and infrastructure started to be developed as microservices in Kubernetes microservice based architecture.Promoted as lead staff engineer and led efforts to implement flows supporting new infrastructure and applications using CI/CD pipeline from scratch using Jenkins, Github, Jfrog, Spinnaker while retrofitting old deployment processes that did not use microservices.Was enlisted to lead initial security team/effort implementing DAST and SAST tools for such as Probely, Dependabot, and Jfrog Xray. Took part in SOC2 compliance audits.Led staff engineering team under CTO and Director of engineering to completely refactor all hiring and interviewing processes and practices.Led company to standardize all Confluence Wiki documentation, test documentation, API documentation, and all other technical writing across the company.Mentored, managed, and led many engineers directly as reports as well as across teams as part of being a Lead Staff Software engineer working on cross team initiatives.

San Francisco, California, Us

Hired to newly formed Devops team under CTO to stabilize and handle influx of new engineers and products in pipeline for fast growing startup. Main goals were to replace and retrofit legacy infrastructure and tools for the entire company to accommodate long term growth and new products. Devops also acted as SRE team with On-call 24/7 365 days a year to support all these new products and teams while simultaneously attempting to replace old infrastructure and tools.Scope of team responsibilities included: Security, Monitoring (Elk/Prometheus/Sumologic), Infra + Cloud Infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Infrastructure as code (Terraform/Ansible/Docker/Kubernetes/Helm), Build and Release (Jenkins + AWS/GCP Kubernetes clusters), Database administration, and internal tooling. Worked with the testing and automation team which separated from Devops as its own team.In addition to shared responsibilities I was put in charge or migrating and replacing all components of our CI/CD pipeline which included Makefiles/Ansible/Ant/Maven/Gradle builds going through nine Jenkins instances, which I reduced to three, all with custom plugins/job configurations over about ~800 jobs and ~50 custom libraries. Worked with teams to eliminate and simplify on to as few Jenkins instances, plugins, libraries, and jobs as possible. Work with all teams to migrate all CI/CD flows to deploy as Kubernetes pods which were all previously done manually onto EC2 or using Elastic Beanstalk onto EC2.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Hired to stabilize and help lead Developer Tools team to re-architect existing infrastructure to be made highly available such as: a set of custom development tools known as the universal ticketing system, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Docker Registry,Artifactory, Github(Enterprise), Puppet, Salt, Nagios Etc. Worked to deprecate/replace many of these tools with better ones, off the shelf or custom. Team owned and supported company with responsibilities ranging from: site reliability, infrastructure, operations, security, CI/CD pipeline development, and internal tools. Within weeks of being hired took over generic on call for team. Since then provided support, on call or otherwise, for all infrastructure and tools in the company.Team was reorganized and merged with two other teams adding more pieces of custom shared infrastructure. I learned them and joined the on call rotation for the new responsibilities the team took on. Worked with every engineering team to rework and replace all Jenkins workflows, with thousands of jobs/plugins used by every engineer in the company. Worked with teams to prototype and make many new features, CI/CD workflows using Kubernetes workers. Migrated all old use cases to the new use cases while also taking advantage of new features and workflows available.Worked on a company wide set of EKS clusters in AWS for use by the whole company. Focusing on development, test, build, and deployment pipelines with new Kubernetes infrastructure. Making custom tooling for engineers in the company to interact with and use the new Kubernetes infrastructure.

Oakland, California, Us

Hired to Infrastructure Software Engineering(ISE) team responsible for site reliability, infrastructure, operations, and developer tools. ISE was the last line of defense for all business and 24/7 on-call support. Created an in house deployment tool and pipeline that supported legacy and later containerized microservices that the whole company infrastructure was migrating to using Jenkins and Ansible.ISE was split into different teams and due to every engineering team switching to my new deployment tool for old and new projects they created the Deployments sub-team which I led. Tool used Nginx and switched to using LinkerD/Consul for blue-green/canary deploys and service discovery. Tool supported using a data center operating system managed cluster (Kubernetes/Mesos).Deploy team took over the duties of several other tools of the deployment pipeline such as: testing, configuration management, monitoring and alerting, another on-call rotation, and many others.Though split, all original ISE members continue their ISE duties that includes limited amounts of new work, 24/7 on-call rotation, and supporting all legacy ISE duties.

Culver City, Ca, Us

Led Internal Tools Team(five people) helping other developer teams such as front/back end, console, video streaming, tv applications, payments, QA, security, infrastructure, adtech, and Mobile Engineering teams.Drove adoption through training and embedding on teams for CI/CD(Jenkins), test driven development, migrating to a new microservices architecture from monolithic. Migrated infrastructure owned servers to AWS using Docker. Introduced and supported new build tools(Phing/Maven/Gradle/Ant), dependency management, and several internal customized tools for all of our many diverse teams.

Lehi, Ut, Us

Led DNA team to adopt many methodologies such as: agile/scrum project management as team scrum master, CI/CD(Jenkins), code coverage tools, test driven development, code review tools, pair programming tools, version control(Git) and technical documentation and specifications. Documented, and taught these processes and tools and processes to all other teams in the form of documentation and training sessions after they were very successful for my team in speeding up development and reducing overhead.Helped team rewrite a slow exponentially scaling DNA processing pipeline into a linearly scaling processing pipeline. Did this using proper software engineering techniques and tools while implementing theoretical and academic scientific algorithms as efficient and scalable Hadoop jobs.

Binghamton, Ny, Us

As a chief executive officer with all teams (Art,Programming,Design/Writing). Developed a series of games at www.novelexp.com. Currently working on games in Unity for all platforms.Worked as a game designer for several iPhone and PC games in development. These games include: a top down shooter, a space sim, and an unannounced MMO for PC platforms. Acted as a project manager on these games with twenty employees and three separate teams to manage. Worked as a programmer/designer/writer to aide in implementing them.Designed, implemented, and maintained Torque C++ engine code and Torquescript. This code touched all levels of the game. Including: Interface, editor, combat, AI, navigation, targeting, missions. Most notably, implemented the AI editor in conjunction with a collaborative mission editor to string together and create missions for the story of Sephil Saga.

Acted as Lead Automation Engineer for all four Facebook apps with four direct reports. Developed and helped teams make custom equivalent Zynga testing/automation tools from scratch. Trained and led team of engineers to use it to automate and test all of the company’s games. While doing this also ran an entire game production staff to design, write, and produce two of the four new Facebook games that came out.

San Francisco, California, Us

Joined company early on (<200 engineers) during period of extreme growth to manage the infrastructure team for of entire Zynga.com game platform team, which grew to about seven people. Worked with developers to provide implement testing tools, good coding practices and policies, adopt test driven development practices, proper peer review procedures and enforcement, as well as static analysis tools with gates to monitor proper test coverage and procedures across the whole company.Implemented custom in-house image comparison and detection automation framework (T-plan Robot, Sikuli, Selenium) to increase black box test case coverage for all products and platforms. Implemented training to train engineers to script and maintain test suites using custom tool.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Made unit and integration tests (Ruby) along with automation tools(Selenium) to create black, white, and grey box tests for the company website (rupture.com) and its Steam-like desktop “Rupture” Client. This client is now known as “Origin”. Acted as product manager for team using Jira and Pivotal instances for task and bug tracking.Helped design a meta-game for the Rupture website by making proposals, technical specifications, user research, prototyping, and game balancing and testing. Helped in the design of unreleased game. Assets created include: GDD, items, avatar customization, quests, and overall story lines and storyboards.

San Luis Obispo, Ca, Us

Monitoring and maintaining lab computers for California Polytechnic Computer Science Department. Provided technical support and tutoring for students.

Petaluma, Ca, Us

Posted, proofread, and optimized technical requirements on job listings websites. Used various search engines to conduct complex searches to find candidates meeting technical requirements.Learned the tricks of the trade of a technical recruiter. Put them to good use aiding company and myself later when I needed to get a tech job.