Chase Hippen
Senior Platform Engineer - Team Lead
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolChase Hippen is a Senior Platform Engineer and team lead based in Portland with five years of hands-on experience building reliable, automated infrastructure and deployment pipelines across cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure). He combines pragmatic engineering with a security-first mindset, automating CI/CD and observability using tools like Kubernetes, Argo, Tekton, Prometheus, Grafana, and multiple logging/tracing stacks. Chase has progressed from desktop support to leading platform teams, bringing a strong background in configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef), artifact and registry management, and infra-as-code patterns. He’s particularly passionate about simplifying complex pipelines—often translating messy manual workflows into repeatable, auditable automation that reduces risk and speeds delivery. Quietly detail-oriented, he also brings practical experience with email/auth protocols (SPF/DKIM/DMARC) and application-level scanning tools (Snyk, Sonarcloud), reflecting his focus on operational security.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Jefferson City High School
Github Skills (113)
bash10
contour10
k8s10
kubernetes-cluster10
lambda10
kubernetes10
mobx10
installer10
filter10
ceph10
nodejs10
packed10
upstream10
preflight10
kubeadm10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
replicatedhq/aws-event-handler-terraform-module
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:5 reviews, 63 PRs, 73 pushes in 4 months
replicatedcom/reusable-workflows
Oct 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 months
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