Chris Baumbauer
President at Atelier Solutions
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolChris Baumbauer is a technology leader and president of Atelier Solutions with over 15 years advising M&A teams and mid-market companies on IT due diligence, integration planning, and tech modernization. He blends deep systems and kernel-level engineering experience from Sun/Oracle and high-performance computing with practical DevOps skills—evident in contributions to the GitLab CE CI/CD and Kubernetes/Helm configurations. Chris helps dealmakers uncover hidden technical risks before close, create realistic timelines, and drive integrations that realize cost savings and synergies. He has guided clients such as Oracle and PG&E through high-stakes incidents and complex migrations, and specializes in helping private equity and first-time acquirers who lack in-house tech expertise. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he pairs hands-on technical problem solving with a proven process for predictable M&A outcomes. An interesting detail: his background ranges from fixing latent memory corruption in enterprise SPARC systems to automating environment provisioning that reduced provisioning time from weeks to an hour.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Purdue University
English
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Github Skills (11)
gitlab10
kubernetes10
helm10
devops10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
ruby9
rails9
ruby-rails9
memory-leaks6
operating-system6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/gitlabhq
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:34 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on updating and maintaining the GitLab CI/CD configuration within the repository. Their contributions involved upgrading the Helm version, adding support for Knative, and fixing documentation issues. They also made minor changes to the Kubernetes configuration, showing their familiarity with deployment and infrastructure-as-code practices.
gitlab-apinew-issuestrackerrailsgitea
cab105/triggermesh
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Open source event-driven integration platform powered by Kubernetes and Knative. TriggerMesh allows you to declaratively define event flows between sources and targets, with content-based filtering, splitting and processing using functions.
Contributions:52 pushes, 23 branches in 8 months
state-machinescloudeventsflowssplittingcontent-based
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