Chris Doherty
Engineering Manager at Chef/HashiCorp/Kong/Blameless
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Doherty is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building resilient, autonomous teams that minimize top-down direction while maximizing delivery. He combines hands-on DevOps and backend expertise—contributing to notable open-source projects like Chef Infra and maintaining tooling around Vagrant/Packer/Terraform—with people leadership across companies including HashiCorp, Kong, and Blameless. Based in Redwood City, he specializes in connecting diverse thinkers and turning unconventional engineering talent into cohesive, high-performing teams that meet business needs. His background spans core infrastructure automation, release and build reliability, and platform-specific engineering work, giving him credibility when coaching engineers through technical tradeoffs. Colleagues rely on him to simplify complex systems and institutionalize repeatable practices without stifling individual creativity. He’s equally comfortable refactoring build pipelines as he is mentoring engineers to grow into lasting, self-sustaining contributors.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The Loomis Chaffee SchoolBA, BA at Skidmore College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
chef-client10
automation10
chef-solo10
automations10
bundler10
devops10
build-automation10
ruby10
github9
infrastructure9
docker8
windows8
dockers8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Aug 2014 - May 2016
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:82 commits, 12 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Chef Infra project by implementing and refactoring core features related to the reboot resource and its interaction with the Chef client. Their work includes introducing a reboot resource, migrating data related to reboot requests into the run context, and ensuring the immediate reboot functionality works correctly. They also made some changes related to platform-specific behaviors for Windows, including environment variable adjustments and handling of temporary file paths. Additional contributions include logging improvements and code tidying.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
chef-boneyard/chef-dk
Jun 2015 - May 2016
DEPRECATED: A streamlined development and deployment workflow for Chef Infra platform.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits, 10 PRs, 28 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the ChefDK build process and testing infrastructure. They implemented changes to the verification process for Chef provisioning, ensuring compatibility with different versions and drivers. The user also updated the build scripts to pull the latest stable Chef client, and refactored the build process and dependencies to improve its reliability and maintainability. Additionally, they modified the Gemfile to pin the chef version and updated omnibus overrides, automating aspects of the build configuration.
continuous-deploymentcontinuous-deliverydeploymentinfrachef
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