Chris Desoto
Platform Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Desoto is a Platform Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD and cloud-native platforms, currently at Optum in San Diego. He has driven reliability and cost-efficiency across large developer ecosystems—improving observability for EKS clusters, migrating pipelines from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, and contributing to $40K/month AWS savings. Comfortable in on-call rotations and customer-facing roles, he combines SRE practices with platform product thinking to support ~1,000 developers. Early-career stints at Kaiser Permanente, Cisco Meraki, and research support at UC Merced give him broad exposure to healthcare and large-scale SaaS environments. Notably, he helped standardize Helm deployments and automate workflows, enabling smoother application delivery across teams.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Merced CollegeComputer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Merced
English
Github Skills (8)
nodejs6
react6
javascript2
sequence-diagram1
mermaid1
typescript1
uml1
sequence1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chrisdesoto/CSE-140-Project2
May 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
chrisdesoto/CSE-140-Project1
May 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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