Chris Arges
Senior System Software Engineer at Cloudflare
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Arges is a senior system software engineer and seasoned engineering leader with 16 years building and operating Linux-focused infrastructure and security products. Based in Austin, he has driven kernel and systems work from IBM and Canonical to product and platform teams at Vectra, Confluera, and Cloudflare, where he now leads efforts on the Linux team and Cloudflare One dataplane, analytics, and firewall. He combines hands-on kernel development (including Linux kernel modules and cross-platform agent work) with people leadership—hiring, scaling teams, and setting technical direction for distributed, stateless packet firewalls and telemetry systems. Chris routinely bridges low-level systems engineering and cloud deployment automation using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Go-based daemons to move features from prototype to production. He’s comfortable stepping into product and sales contexts (demos, Black Hat presentations) and has a track record of shipping upgrade-safe appliance and kernel releases at scale. Trained with a BS from Purdue and an MS from UT Austin, he pairs deep technical expertise with pragmatic delivery in security and networking domains.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Engineering (Software), MS Computer Engineering (Software) at The University of Texas at AustinBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Github Skills (132)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arges/dotfiles
Apr 2015 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
arges/arges.github.io
Apr 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:39 commits, 85 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 8 months
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