Chris Diaz
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolChris Diaz is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience blending Linux systems administration, Python web development, and deep observability expertise to support high-performance computing at Northwestern University. A former librarian, he brings a user-centered approach to automation and infrastructure, improving both developer experience and operational reliability for research clusters. His background in digital publishing and teaching Git for librarians reflects a rare mix of technical fluency and strong communication skills, useful for translating complex systems to non-technical stakeholders. Chris has hands-on experience across sysadmin, front-end data work, and customer-facing support roles, which helps him bridge gaps between engineering, researchers, and educators. Based in Chicago, he favors pragmatic observability tooling and incremental automation to make large-scale compute environments more understandable and resilient. Notably, his pathway from scholarly communications to SRE gives him a unique perspective on reproducibility and access in academic computing.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General, Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General at DePaul UniversityMaster of Library & Information Science - MLIS, Master of Library & Information Science - MLIS at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (85)
utterances10
algolia10
ruler10
foundation10
rails10
github-pages10
blacklight10
triangular10
recipe10
jekyll10
algolia-search10
jekyll-theme10
python9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chrisdaaz/minibookdown
Dec 2020 - Apr 2022
Minimal Example of a Bookdown project source built and deployed using GitHub Actions
Contributions:2 commits, 3 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 4 months
bookdowndeployedminimal-example
nulib/homicide-in-chicago
Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
Hugo project for the Homicide in Chicago exhibit
Contributions:23 PRs, 202 pushes, 26 branches in 3 years 7 months
homicidechicagohugoexhibithugo-theme
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