Chris Boyle
Vice President, Infrastructure, Engineering, And Operations
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Boyle is a seasoned infrastructure and operations leader with more than 25 years of hands-on engineering and management experience, currently serving as Vice President of Infrastructure, Engineering, and Operations at Starbucks. He oversees global core infrastructure across offices, manufacturing, distribution, data centers, and cloud—driving Infrastructure as Code, FinOps, resiliency, and service standardization to support retail and manufacturing at scale. Known for bridging deep technical expertise (LAN/WAN, compute, storage, backup, DDI, remote access) with vendor and team leadership, he has steadily advanced through roles that shaped Starbucks’ global network and manufacturing technology footprint. Chris emphasizes continuous improvement and product-focused operations, while maintaining world-class service desk and on-site support for complex environments like roasting and soluble plants. Based in Seattle, he combines enterprise-grade architecture with practical operational rigor and a long track record of mentoring teams and embedding standards into fast-changing systems. An early career foundation in field communications and telco work gives him uncommon insight into physical infrastructure constraints that inform his cloud and data-center strategies.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
39reputation
3kreached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (76)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bbck/homelab
Apr 2021 - Apr 2025
My personal infrastructure
Contributions:535 PRs, 1061 pushes, 540 branches in 4 years
raspberry-piansibleraspberrysdnhumble
bbck/dotfiles
Jul 2011 - Jan 2022
My dotfiles for bash
Contributions:236 commits, 1 PR, 83 pushes in 10 years 8 months
linuxbashdotfilesshellzsh
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