Chris Armstrong
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Armstrong is an experienced engineering leader and founder with 14+ years building cloud-native platforms, Site Reliability, and DevOps teams that ship at scale. He created and led Platform Engineering organizations at HashiCorp and multiple startups, and his teams at Deis helped build the widely used Deis PaaS and the Helm package manager for Kubernetes. Chris blends deep hands-on technical fluency in distributed systems, containers, and cloud infrastructure with a people-first approach to coaching, mentorship, and organizational design. He specializes in mapping company strategy to technical execution—recruiting the right talent, defining platform roadmaps, and operationalizing reliability and service ownership. An active open-source contributor and former ops/devs engineer, he’s equally comfortable refactoring cookbooks and automating multi-cloud deployments as he is shaping engineering career frameworks and culture. Based in Seattle, he now advises and leads high-impact platform and SRE teams, often at the intersection of open-source communities and SaaS business models.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Theology and Philosophy, Theology and Philosophy at Trinity Fellows AcademyB.S., Computer Science, Economics, B.S., Computer Science, Economics at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (27)
apim10
hubot10
cookbook10
docker10
coffeescript10
scripting10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
terraform10
java10
javas10
chef-client10
terraformer10
automation10
script10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
deis/deis
Mar 2014 - Mar 2016
Deis v1, the CoreOS and Docker PaaS: Your PaaS. Your Rules.
Role in this project:
DevOps & Cloud Engineer
DevOps & Cloud EngineerContributions:2 releases, 744 commits, 370 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the project's infrastructure and deployment aspects. Their commits demonstrate work in configuring and automating cloud environments, specifically focusing on setting up CoreOS clusters using AWS services. The user also addressed dependency management, particularly with the `lxc` package, and updated deployment scripts for various cloud providers like EC2, Rackspace, and DigitalOcean. This involved modifying deployment processes to leverage the features of each cloud platform for optimized deployments.
dokkupaascoreosdockerkubernetes
sous-chefs/java
Oct 2013 - Jul 2014
Development repository for the java cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:120 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Java cookbook by updating and maintaining the dependencies and configurations. Their work included upgrading Java versions, updating checksums for security, and ensuring the project used the correct resources for building and deploying. Furthermore, the user addressed platform-specific configurations for Java, including fixing alternatives for RHEL/CentOS and Arch Linux. Finally, the user refactored the default recipe to better enable wrapper cookbooks.
cookbookjava-8java11chef-resourcejava
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