Chris Carlson
Site Reliability Engineer at Near Life Soap
Springfield, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolChris 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 AcademyBachelor of Science, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science, Information Technology at George Mason University
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Github Skills (56)
obd-ii10
memorystore10
elasticache10
aws9
redis-server9
gcp8
golang8
redis8
docker-compose7
go7
docker7
k8s6
backend6
kotlin6
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chrispyduck/airbolt_integration
Mar 2024 - May 2026
Airbolt integration for Home Assistant
Contributions:12 releases, 34 PRs, 58 pushes in 2 years 1 month
airbolthacshacs-integrationhomeassistant
chrispyduck/chrispyduck.github.io
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 13 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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