Summary
Chris Doughty is a DevOps manager in Austin with 13 years of hands-on experience building secure, efficient infrastructure and leading engineering teams at Rapid7. He progressed from senior engineer to lead engineer and now manages DevOps operations, focusing on mentoring engineers and scaling reliable delivery pipelines. His background includes architecting enterprise configuration management with Chef and Puppet, automating test and deployment workflows, and designing cloud-ready hardware provisioning using iPXE and iSCSI. He brings deep institutional knowledge from long tenures at IBM and Spawn Labs, including a patent-winning automation framework and extensive enterprise testing leadership. Known for turning complex problems into pragmatic, auditable solutions, he blends technical depth with a coach-first management style. Based in Austin and educated in computer science at Texas State University, he favors secure, repeatable systems that improve team velocity.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Texas State University-San Marcos