Summary
Chris Garrigues is a seasoned IT professional with 13+ years in post-sales and systems roles, currently advising Adobe Commerce customers while expanding into Adobe Experience Manager. He blends deep Unix/Linux and infrastructure expertise with customer-facing technical account management, having launched and supported numerous Magento Cloud merchants at scale. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and manager, Chris is known for clear communication of complex technical issues to non-technical stakeholders and for dependable crisis management. His background spans startups he founded and led to profitability as well as large enterprises like AT&T and eBay Enterprise, showing ability to stabilize and optimize critical systems under heavy load. Notably, he has hands-on experience automating OS configuration and tooling (including a Ruby tool for OS analysis) and running massive PKI and GSLB deployments. Based in North Carolina, he consistently converts technical excellence into strong client loyalty and pragmatic, business-aligned solutions.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at San Francisco State University
Wampus House, No-Mag Studies, Wampus House, No-Mag Studies at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry