Chris Burns
Site Reliability Engineer at Stacklok
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Burns is a Site Reliability Engineer with eight years’ experience building cloud-native platforms, microservices and secure software supply chains from London. He has led platform and backend teams at Capgemini, delivering high-throughput public sector APIs, migration tooling for secure environments, and developer-experience focused AWS platforms. Pragmatic and hands-on, Chris mixes Java/Spring and Kubernetes expertise with GitOps, CI/CD and service-mesh observability to turn complex requirements into production-ready systems. He contributes to sigstore/cosign, improving key management and exit-code handling for container signing—underscoring a practical commitment to open-source supply-chain security. Known for leading cross-functional teams in high-assurance contexts, he combines developer empathy with rigorous operational discipline.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC National Diploma ICT, BTEC National Diploma ICT at Coleg GwentAbersychan ComprehensiveBachelor's of Science (BSc) Computing & Information Systems, Bachelor's of Science (BSc) Computing & Information Systems at University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Github Skills (6)
error-handling10
go10
cli10
testing10
cd8
cicd8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
sigstore/cosign
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Code signing and transparency for containers and binaries
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 3 commits, 13 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the `cosign` CLI tool, specifically related to key pair management and error handling. They implemented features allowing custom naming for key pairs during generation and import, impacting user experience and flexibility. The user also refactored error handling, introducing exit codes for specific error scenarios to improve usability. This included implementing exit codes for image verification failures and other key-related issues.
containerscryptographycosignsigningsign
ChrisJBurns/ChrisJBurns
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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