Chris Debenham
Staff Technical Supportability Engineer, Google Cloud Platform
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Debenham is a Staff Technical Supportability Engineer at Google Cloud with over two decades of deep Unix and cloud experience, specializing in Solaris, Linux, virtualization, security and networking. He has a proven track record of resolving high‑severity incidents, mentoring engineers globally, and creating both customer-facing and internal knowledge that measurably improves service levels. Prior roles at Oracle and Sun saw him deliver code‑level fixes, perform crash dump analysis and act as the “go‑to” engineer for the toughest platform issues across APAC. He combines systems-level debugging with practical automation and build expertise—evidenced by hands-on contributions to the xLights sequencer and familiarity with CI, Docker and diverse VCS tooling. Based in Sydney, he balances production support at scale with ongoing open-source and hobbyist projects in lighting control and FPV drone systems, reflecting a rare blend of operational rigor and experimental curiosity.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Computing Science, B.Sc, Computing Science at University of Technology Sydney
Github Skills (9)
wxwidgets10
linux10
build-system10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
makefile10
ffmpeg9
sdl8
gstreamer8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
xLightsSequencer/xLights
Jul 2015 - Feb 2022
xLights is a sequencer for Lights. xLights has usb and E1.31 drivers. You can create sequences in this object oriented program. You can create playlists, schedule them, test your hardware, convert between different sequencers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 releases, 413 commits, 11 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris was primarily focused on building and improving the xLights sequencer. The contributions involved fixing build issues, such as those related to the Linux environment, which suggests familiarity with the project's build system and associated dependencies. Specific changes like implementing missing function calls, adjusting include paths, and handling the port time and ffmpeg libraries indicate an understanding of the project's architecture and required dependencies, along with related system-level programming.
driversdmx512lightsusbsequencer
cjd/xlights-packaging
Mar 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:155 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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