Chris S.

Chris S. has diverse work experience in the technology industry. Chris started their career at Isilon Systems as a Technical Support Engineer, specializing in clustered storage and troubleshooting various issues. Chris then joined Clearwire as a Senior Systems Engineer, where they operated, built, tested, and supported AAA application environments within a WiMAX network.

After Clearwire, Chris worked at Pillar Data Systems as an Advanced Support Engineer, acting as a bridge between support and development engineering. Chris analyzed complex problems, filed defects, and developed tools for the support organization. Chris later moved to Yahoo! as a Senior Systems Engineer, working with a small team to maintain core services for deployment and development tools.

Chris then joined Twitter and served as a Senior Systems Engineer on the hardware engineering team. Chris characterized server and network hardware performance, collaborated with vendors, and led GPU/deep learning platform projects.

At LinkedIn, Chris worked as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, first focusing on content and then on the Trust SRE team. Chris collaborated with developers, monitored key metrics, and led initiatives to increase team depth and adopt embedded SRE models.

Chris also had multiple roles at Oracle, starting as a Senior Principal Software Engineer and later transitioning to a Senior Principal Security Analyst role in Cloud Operations. Chris contributed to various virtual teams and focused on projects related to image builds, managed Kubernetes, and SDLC practices.

Lastly, Chris worked at Facebook as a Linux Systems Engineer on the Enterprise Platforms Engineering team. Chris'sresponsibilities included leading OpenStack efforts, collaborating with engineers, contributing to automation tools, and providing training.

Currently, they are employed at Dataminr as a Senior Principal Software Engineer, specializing in tools and infrastructure.

Chris S. attended Austin Community College in 2006, where they pursued a major in Computer Science but did not obtain a degree. In terms of additional certifications, they obtained the GIAC Python Coder (GPYC) certification from GIAC Certifications in June 2020 and the GIAC Certified Penetration Tester (GPEN) certification from the same institution in March 2020. In 2018, they obtained the Certified Kubernetes Administrator certification from the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), and the Pentest+ and Security+ certifications from CompTIA. In 2017, Chris attained the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate, AWS Certified Developer - Associate, and AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certifications from Amazon Web Services. Chris also obtained the Basic Chef Fluency Badge from Chef Software, the OpenStack Certification by Mirantis Associate Level (OCM50) from Mirantis, and the Brocade Accredited Virtual Router Implementer certification from Brocade. Furthermore, they obtained the CompTIA Cloud Admin Professional - CCAP, CompTIA Linux Network Professional - CLNP, Network+ ce, and OpenStack Certification by Mirantis Professional Level (OCM100) certifications in 2017. In 2016, Chris obtained the Certified OpenStack Administrator certification from the CNCF, while in 2015, they acquired the Cloud+ ce certification from CompTIA and the RHCE (RHEL 7) certification from Red Hat. Finally, in 2009, they obtained the NetApp Certified Storage Associate (NACA) certification from NetApp and the Oracle Enterprise Linux Administrator Certified Associate certification from Oracle in 2008.