Summary
Chris Carlson is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and tuning high-availability systems for demanding customers, currently focused on reliability at People Data Labs. He combines deep hands-on skills in performance tuning, scalable architecture, and incident post-mortems from roles at NPR and enterprise contractors with practical software development across C#, .NET, and infrastructure automation. Known for squeezing inefficiencies out of large datasets and packet-processing code, he also brings experience running end-to-end production environments and CI/CD tooling. Based in Springfield, VA, Chris pairs his SRE work with an unexpected creative outlet as the owner and “mad scientist” behind Near Life Soap, reflecting a pragmatic, maker mindset that informs his approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Networking and Telecommunications, Networking and Telecommunications at Thomas Edison Academy
Bachelor of Science, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science, Information Technology at George Mason University