Chris Fidao
Infrastructure Engineer at Internal Screaming LLC
Madison, United States
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Top SchoolChris Fidao is an Infrastructure Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and automating deployment pipelines, developer tooling, and cloud-native infrastructure for Laravel applications. Currently at Laravel and previously focused on Laravel integrations at Fly.io, he combines deep DevOps expertise with open-source contributions—helping maintain trustedproxy, improving Fly.io's laravel tooling, and documenting deployment best practices. As founder of Fideloper and co-founder of ChipperCI, he blends product-minded entrepreneurship with practical systems work, shipping CI/CD and DevOps training for developers. Based in Madison, he’s known for bridging developer ergonomics and production reliability, often writing the scripts and docs that make complex deployments reproducible and pleasant.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Management of Information Systems, Bachelors, Management of Information Systems at University of Connecticut
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Github Skills (45)
middleware10
docker10
laravel-mix10
configuration-management10
bash10
fly10
apache10
laravel10
io10
dockers10
php10
script10
nginx10
vagrant10
devops10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
fideloper/TrustedProxy
Apr 2013 - Feb 2022
Laravel Proxy Package for handling sessions when behind load balancers or other intermediaries.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 155 commits, 62 PRs in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the `trustedproxy` package, which handles session management behind load balancers. Their work involved adding and refining configuration options for trusted proxies, integrating with Laravel's service provider, and ensuring the configuration is loaded during application booting. They also implemented a middleware to correctly handle proxy headers, which were thoroughly tested to verify their functionality.
laravelphphandlingproxy
fideloper/Vaprobash
Dec 2013 - May 2017
Vagrant Provisioning Bash Scripts
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 625 commits, 52 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on setting up and configuring the environment, especially within the context of a Vagrant-based setup for provisioning. Their contributions involved installing and configuring various components like Nginx, Apache, PHP, MariaDB, and Redis, along with tools like Composer and the creation of virtual hosts for the web servers. The commits demonstrate the user's focus on automation, scripting, and system configuration for a development environment. Furthermore, they implemented the installation of services like mailcatcher and elasticsearch to enhance development and debugging.
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