Chris Hirsch
Senior Lead DevOps Engineer at KiaTek LLC
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Hirsch is a Senior Lead DevOps Engineer with over two decades of experience designing and operating real-time and soft real-time systems and 11 years focused in senior/lead roles. He specializes in pragmatic, scalable architectures that favor simple design, automated testing, and repeatable deployments across cloud and on-prem platforms, and is fluent in C/C++, Go, Python, Java and infrastructure tooling from Kubernetes and Terraform to Ansible and ELK. Chris brings strong telemetry-driven instincts—instrumenting systems, creating intuitive dashboards and smart alerts—to turn metrics into actionable decisions and measurable performance improvements. He has led teams and customer engagements at scale (including migrating stateful services to GCP and tuning Bitbucket for 3000+ users) while mentoring engineers to adopt CI/CD, GitOps and production-grade automation. A hands-on operator who also runs his own IT/hosting business, he pairs engineering craftsmanship with a collaborative leadership style and a taste for building useful developer tools that cut mean-time-to-recovery.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Colorado State University
Github Skills (46)
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operator8
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kubernetes-operator8
kubernetes8
custom-component7
nodejs7
google-home7
storage7
robot7
vagrant7
puppet7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Raptacon/Robot-2024
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
Crescendo
Contributions:3 releases, 39 reviews, 16 PRs in 1 year 3 months
ChrisHirsch/kuberhealthy-storage-check
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
A storage check for the kuberhealthy project
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 38 commits in 2 years 1 month
kubernetesvagrantstoragekuberhealthy
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