Chris Behrens
Chief Research Scientist at Beautiful DevOps Working Group
Kennedale, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Behrens is a pragmatic software architect and engineering leader with over a decade of experience delivering reliable systems under tight deadlines, now serving as Chief Research Scientist at Beautiful DevOps Working Group. He combines hands-on development—especially in .NET, Azure, deployment automation and automated testing—with strong diagnostic and mentoring skills, often stepping into code when teams need rapid rescue. His career includes founding BehrensTech and authoring ten Pluralsight courses, reflecting a talent for translating complex technical topics into teachable practice. Experienced with HIPAA-safe ETL pipelines, Canary deployments, and IoT cloud architectures, he excels at shaping small, high-leverage teams and navigating difficult personalities to get results. Trained in economics, he brings a practical business-analytic lens to technical decisions, making trade-offs that balance risk, schedule, and maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Economics, B.S. Economics at The University of Texas at Arlington
German
Stackoverflow
6,285reputation
3.4mreached
272answers
70questions
entity-framework
top-5%
Github Skills (35)
plugin9
entity-framework9
asp-net9
x509certificates9
jenkins-plugin8
jenkins-api-plugin7
java7
azure-devops7
jenkins7
iis6
powershell6
versioning6
database6
sql-server6
iis-express6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FeynmanFan/DandErr
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 20 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
FeynmanFan/JenkinsGroovy
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:69 commits, 79 pushes, 2 branches in 9 days
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