Chris Newkirk

Chris Newkirk is an experienced Site Reliability Engineer and Systems Engineer at Lightspeed Systems since December 2004, specializing in the building, maintenance, and monitoring of network infrastructure for various SaaS applications. Chris has expertise in a range of systems and services, including PostgreSQL, MySql, MSSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, Postfix, Nginx, Apache, HAProxy, and Icinga, and has contributed to automation through the development of Chef cookbooks for configuring virtual servers. Prior to this role, Chris served as a Financial Services Representative at Union Bank from 2002 to 2004. Chris holds an Associate of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from San Joaquin Valley College-Bakersfield, earned between 2002 and 2004.