Chris Gethen
Co-Founder And Director at Genesys Data Pty Ltd
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Gethen is a data-focused technology leader and co-founder with 11 years of experience building operationally resilient organisations and products from Melbourne. As Director of Genesys Data he combines a pragmatic "Data First" strategy with expertise in modern data management, privacy and security to help enterprises treat data as a strategic asset. His background includes senior leadership roles at Cisco where he transformed service sales, subscription offerings and cross-functional teams, and early technical roots in programming and network systems at Telstra and IBM. Chris balances strategy and hands-on engineering — contributing to open-source tooling for Cisco APIC (acitoolkit) with backend and DevOps improvements and a docker-integrated diagram app. He has a strong commercial instinct for aligning IT strategy to growth, having built cost-efficient cloud and SaaS platforms for startups and led large teams through rapid scaling. Known for translating complex technical risk into practical, compliance-minded solutions, he brings both executional rigor and a collaborative leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce in ICT, Business/Commerce, General and ICT, Bachelor of Commerce in ICT, Business/Commerce, General and ICT at The University of AucklandMasters of Business in Information Technology, Masters of Business in Information Technology at RMIT University
Github Skills (9)
network-automation10
python10
debug9
debugging9
command-line-arguments8
graphviz7
dockers7
docker7
cicd6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
datacenter/acitoolkit
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
A basic toolkit for accessing the Cisco APIC
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 5 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to bug fixes and made code corrections related to the core functionality of the acitoolkit. They added a command-line argument for specifying the port to listen on, enhancing application configuration. Furthermore, the user implemented a new application, aci-diagram, demonstrating an understanding of the toolkit's domain. In addition, the user addressed requirements for the aci-diagram application, included debugging features, and ensured that the setup was able to integrate docker images properly.
netmikoapipythonnetwork-automationapic
datacenter/puppet-aci
Jun 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years 11 months
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