Christopher Hicks

Christopher Hicks has a diverse work experience spanning several companies and roles. Christopher is currently working as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Tubi since 2022. Prior to this, they worked as the Founder of Flamingo Internet Navigators, a consulting firm that completed projects for various clients such as Case Corporation, Wheat First Securities, and the National Weather Service. Christopher also provided extensive training in UNIX, Linux, Perl, and Java.

In 2020, Christopher worked as a Site Reliability Engineer at McD Tech Labs, where they tagged AWS resources to follow corporate standards using terraform and developed a tag compliance scanner in Python. Christopher also moved S3 access logs to subdirectories using Python and boto3.

Before that, from 2019 to 2020, they served as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Blueshift, where they wrote tools for managing Elasticsearch clusters in OpsWorks and documented using asciinema to create animated GIFs. Christopher also worked as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Bastille in 2019, where they added packaging to buildkite CI pipelines, rewrote production deployment bash scripts, and created a new packaging format.

From 2016 to 2019, Christopher worked as a Site Reliability Engineer at Telmate. During this time, they automated proxmox VM creation using Perl and trained the outsourced oncall vendor on how to deal with PagerDuty L1 incidents.

Prior to that, they held the role of a Site Reliability Engineer at Uber in 2015, where they built and produced weekly reports on SLAs and created a Debian package for haproxy. Christopher also deployed Aurora and Mesos using Terraform and puppet.

In 2014, Christopher worked as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Marin Software, focusing on Perfect Audience's RTB platform and managing servers in AWS using ansible, opsworks, and chef.

Before that, they served as a Senior Operations Engineer at BrightRoll from 2013 to 2014, where they handled server deployments, maintained vendor relationships, and wrote Perl scripts for mapping physical drives and culling outlet power statistics.

Christopher's career began in 2013 as a Linux Systems Engineer at Virtu Financial.

Overall, Christopher Hicks has had extensive experience in site reliability engineering, automation, deployment, and training across various industries and companies.

Christopher Hicks attended Virginia Commonwealth University from 1990 to 1993. During their time at the university, they pursued studies in Computer Science and Philosophy. However, they did not obtain a degree.