Chris Chipman
Automation Engineer
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Chipman is an Automation Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating Linux, virtualization, and containerized infrastructure across cloud providers and large-scale OpenStack environments. At Cisco he drives CI/CD efficiency—shrinking job runtimes from 40+ minutes to under five—while building custom automation and reviewing/rewriting pipelines (Git/Gerrit, Jenkins, GoCD). His background in operations at DigitalOcean and Rackspace gives him deep familiarity with hypervisors, HA clusters, configuration management (Salt Stack), and production troubleshooting. A former Special Forces Engineer Sergeant, he brings disciplined logistics, security-conscious planning, and experience managing high-value equipment under pressure. He’s passionate about improving processes and acting as the technical liaison between teams to turn manual tasks into reliable, automated workflows. Based in the Raleigh-Durham area, he combines field-tested operational rigor with a knack for practical automation that delivers measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Network and System Administration/Administrator, 3.6 GPA, Associate's degree, Network and System Administration/Administrator, 3.6 GPA at Greenville Technical CollegeRackspace UniversityCisco Learning
Stackoverflow
11reputation
82reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (13)
google-workspace6
xbrl6
google-apps-script6
edgar5
sec5
parse5
parser5
python3
secrets2
vault2
gocd2
hashicorp1
hashicorp-vault1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chipmanc/deploy
Feb 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 27 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
chipmanc/django-stocks
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 64 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 month
pythonfilingsedgarsecxbrl
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