Summary
Chris W is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and operating reliable, scalable cloud and on-prem infrastructures. He specializes in Kubernetes, GitOps, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Crossplane, Chef/Ansible) to automate deployments, rightsize resources, and improve resilience across multi-cloud environments. At QuickNode, he orchestrates greenfield Oracle Cloud OKE clusters using ArgoCD app-of-apps and ApplicationSets, while also managing Elasticsearch ECK clusters for autoscaling and observability. Previously, he led a major on-prem to AWS migration at NortonLifeLock and built multi-cloud platforms spanning AWS, Azure, and VMware, leveraging Terraform, Packer, Docker, and CI/CD tooling. He brings hands-on expertise across Linux administration, Python/Go tooling, ELK, and monitoring stacks like kube-prometheus-stack, with a track record of deploying blockchain clients and modernizing infrastructure. Based in Phoenix, AZ, he also earned a Full Stack Web Development Certification from Free Code Camp, reflecting a broad engineering foundation.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English