Chris Coleman
VP Of Cloud Security Engineering At Citi
Westminster, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolChris Coleman is a cloud security and DevSecOps leader with 11 years of engineering experience, currently serving as VP of Cloud Security Engineering at Citi and running his own DevSecOps consultancy, Rot-26 Solutions. He blends hands-on automation and infrastructure work—backed by an AWS Solutions Architect certification—with leadership of security engineering at scale in a major financial institution. Chris’s background spans DevOps automation, embedded and robotics engineering, and product-focused startups, giving him a practical systems-thinking approach to secure, repeatable delivery. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced the popular puphpet Vagrant/Puppet GUI with full-stack improvements to local VM configuration and UX. Based in Westminster, Colorado, he pairs mechanical engineering fundamentals from CU Boulder with a penchant for pragmatic code and tooling that prevents “hacking” from becoming technical debt. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates platform strategy into auditable, automated controls.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
French, Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
ruby10
puppeteer10
vagrant10
puppet10
twig9
html9
back-end-development8
front-end-development8
backend8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
puphpet/puphpet
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Vagrant/Puppet GUI
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the Puphpet project by adding functionality to the local Vagrant environment configuration. They implemented features to customize CPU allocation, VM hostname, and other local deployment settings. The changes involved modifications to both the Vagrantfile (Ruby) and the user interface (Twig/HTML), indicating work across the backend and frontend aspects of the project. These additions likely aimed to enhance the user experience and flexibility of local VM setup within the Puphpet GUI.
vagrantpuppetansiblephpgui
rot26/rot26__adam__nodejs-demo
Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
This is a demo node js mysql app I built to share with a friend
Contributions:51 PRs, 60 pushes, 44 branches in 1 year 8 months
ejsmysqlnode-jsjavascriptexpress
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