Chris Duck
IT Engineering Architect at Vizient, Inc
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Duck is an IT Engineering Architect with 13 years of hands-on experience crafting reliable Windows and virtualization infrastructure at Vizient, Inc., where he progressed from service desk to architect. He specializes in automation and scripting (PowerShell, VBScript, JScript/JavaScript, PowerCLI) to drive repeatable deployments, having automated OS and ESX installs and taught weekly PowerShell classes to peers. His work includes designing highly available IIS7 shared-config web farms, Windows clustering, and VMware migrations, demonstrating a blend of systems administration and pragmatic engineering. Based in Fort Worth, he pairs deep operational knowledge of Windows Server ecosystems with a developer’s mindset for tooling and repeatability, often turning manual processes into automated, auditable workflows. An understated strength is his track record of internal enablement—mentoring colleagues and codifying best practices that scale across the organization.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science Engineering, BS, Computer Science Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington
Github Skills (143)
windows10
dsc10
terraform10
gcp10
netcore10
serverless10
linux10
dotnet10
pulumi10
powershell-module10
powershell10
azure10
shell10
azure-resource-manager10
macos10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
gpduck/gpduck.github.io
Aug 2013 - Dec 2015
Contributions:324 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 4 months
gpduck/WDSiPXE
May 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:5 releases, 17 PRs, 32 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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