Chris Hammer
Technical Operations Engineer
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Hammer is a Technical Operations Engineer with 11 years of experience building and supporting email infrastructure and developer-facing services from San Antonio, Texas. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles at Mailgun and Rackspace, moving from frontline email technician work into software development, team leadership, and now operations engineering. Chris combines deep operational knowledge of email systems with practical software development experience, enabling him to diagnose complex production issues and implement lasting fixes. His tenure at Mailgun highlights strengths in cross-functional collaboration, incident response, and scalable tooling for messaging platforms. Not obvious from titles: he has repeatedly transitioned between customer-facing support and backend engineering, giving him a rare perspective on both user experience and system internals. He is focused on reliability, automation, and translating customer pain points into robust operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (17)
mailchimp-api10
mailgun10
mailjet9
sphinx-extension9
sphinx8
sdk7
guzzle7
documentation7
php6
ruby5
wordpress4
wordpress-plugin4
email-address4
parsing3
mime3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mailgun/documentation
Oct 2014 - Feb 2017
Mailgun Documentation
Contributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 4 months
sphinx-extensionmailgunsphinx
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