Chip Childers
Sr. Director at Broadcom Software
Greater Philadelphia United States
Summary
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SeniorChip Childers is a senior technology executive with 14 years of experience leading security, compliance, open source, and privacy engineering across major enterprise software organizations. Currently Sr. Director at Broadcom Software, he previously served as VP and Chief Open Source Officer at VMware and held CTO and Executive Director roles at the Cloud Foundry Foundation, demonstrating a consistent blend of strategic planning, M&A diligence, and product leadership. A long-time Apache member and former VP of Apache CloudStack, he contributes to well-known open-source infrastructure projects and has hands-on experience improving build, deployment and licensing practices. Based in Greater Philadelphia, Chip pairs engineering depth—especially in security, OSS, and cloud IaaS—with a track record of operationalizing governance and privacy at scale. He’s notable for moving fluidly between board-level strategy and script-level contributions, ensuring technical rigor informs business decisions.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (21)
scripting10
bash10
apache-cloudstack10
script10
build-automation10
sh10
shell10
devops10
automation-testing9
automation9
automations9
infrastructure9
licensing8
database6
multi-tenant6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cloudstack
Sep 2012 - Apr 2013
Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:69 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chip's commits primarily focus on the infrastructure and configuration of the Apache CloudStack platform. They're making changes to shell scripts, specifically correcting headers and paths. The user also focuses on build and deployment infrastructure, with changes to scripts that automate build, test, and release procedures. The user also addresses license headers and dependencies, ensuring the code aligns with the project's licensing requirements.
pythonapache-cloudstackxcp-nghostingcloud-computing
cloudfoundry-attic/cloudfoundry.org
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 months
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