Chris Gelhaus
Director Infrastructure Engineering at Sagent
Auburn, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolChris Gelhaus is a seasoned infrastructure engineering leader with 11 years in cloud and DevOps roles and over two decades of broader IT experience, now serving as Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Sagent. He has progressed from hands-on database and networking roles into architecting cloud-native solutions, with deep practical experience in Terraform, AWS, Azure, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code. Known for bridging legacy systems and modern cloud practices, he previously led solutions architecture and automation initiatives at Alfa Insurance, driving PoCs for container migrations and multi-cloud research. Based in Auburn, Alabama, Chris combines operational rigor from his database and systems administration background with strategic leadership of engineering teams. He’s the kind of leader who still enjoys building and deploying infrastructure himself, translating business requirements into resilient, auditable cloud platforms.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Business Administration, Bachelor's of Science, Business Administration at University of South AlabamaBachelors of Business; Associates degree, Management of Information Systems; Networking Technologies, Bachelors of Business; Associates degree, Management of Information Systems; Networking Technologies at Auburn University Montgomery
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Github Skills (29)
octopus10
octopus-deploy10
docker8
rancher7
azure-resource-manager6
resource-manager6
orchestration6
azure6
terraform6
terraform-provider6
kubernetes6
cattle5
migration5
container5
container-management5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chrisgelhaus/BCPJSON
Nov 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
chrisgelhaus/jenkins-docker
Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:5 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
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