Chris Kirkland is an experienced software engineer currently serving as a Staff Software Engineer at GitHub, focusing on the future of Authentication since April 2021. Previously, Chris held multiple roles at IBM from June 2015 to April 2021, including Senior and Advisory Software Engineer for the Kubernetes Service, where responsibilities included leading a team to enhance the reliability of ETCD and orchestrating a significant database migration. Other roles involved developing APIs for logging in Kubernetes and maintaining performance tests for BlueMix services. Education includes a Master of Science in Computational and Applied Mathematics from North Carolina State University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Mercer University. Early experience involved research and teaching roles at North Carolina State University and a software development internship at Terma North America Inc.
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