Chris Funderburg
Principal Platform Engineer
Newbury, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Funderburg is a Principal Platform Engineer and seasoned DevSecOps practitioner with a 30-year background in infrastructure and over a decade focused on cloud-native platform engineering. He leads platform strategy and hands-on delivery across startups, banks, and consultancies—most recently at Indicium AI and through his own consultancy Cloud Cauldron—designing secure, compliant infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, containers, and CI/CD pipelines. Comfortable in both advisory and implementation roles, he has repeatedly helped organisations achieve ISO and PCI DSS-aligned operations and built automated provisioning frameworks that remove manual toil. A British Texan and environmentalist by training (BSc Hons in Environmental Management and Technology), he brings a pragmatic, systems-level perspective that balances operational robustness with sustainability. Known for blending old-school sysadmin grit with modern cloud architecture, he still enjoys getting hands-on in the tooling and automation that keep large fleets humming.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Honours), Environmental Management and Technology, BSc (Honours), Environmental Management and Technology at The Open UniversityInformation Technology, Information Technology at Texas State Technical CollegeOdessa High School
Github Skills (133)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bocan/AllWorkAndNoPlay
Oct 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 7 months
bocan/my-aws-eks
May 2021 - Mar 2022
A Terraform project to produce a secure, autoscaling EKS cluster for testing, demos, and labs - using mostly Spot instances.
Contributions:71 commits, 35 PRs, 47 pushes in 9 months
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