Christie Koehler
Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChristie Koehler is a seasoned engineering technical leader with 20 years of experience guiding distributed systems, operations, and open-source initiatives. At Cisco, she leads a VM-based compute platform spanning 35+ data centers, driving 300%+ growth in capacity and utilization while advancing observability and tooling. She also founded Authentic Engine LLC to help tech teams tackle sustainability, governance, and leadership challenges, and hosts the Recompiler podcast to broaden access to technology across diverse backgrounds. An active open-source contributor and DevOps practitioner, she has automated remote development environments and mentors teams to improve engineer and operator experiences. Based in Portland, Oregon, Christie combines deep fluency in Python, Go, Bash, Kubernetes, AWS, and HashiCorp tooling with a continual appetite for learning new stacks and delivering reliable, scalable systems.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts at University of California, Davis
English
Github Skills (8)
digitalocean10
automation10
automations10
cloud-infrastructure10
python10
git9
dns8
bash7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/zulip-gci
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
GCI project category descriptions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 12 PRs, 3 pushes in 10 days
Contributions summary:Christie focused on automating the creation of remote Zulip developer environments. They developed a Python script to create Zulip dev droplets on DigitalOcean, including user key management, setting up initial configurations, and creating DNS records. Additionally, they improved the documentation for using the remote development environment.
categorydescriptionsgci
stumpsyn/policies
Oct 2013 - Feb 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 4 months
policiessyndicate
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