Chris Howard
Senior DevOps Consultant at Mechanical Rock
Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Howard is a Senior DevOps Consultant based in Western Australia with 9 years of professional experience and 6+ years focused on cloud-native application development. He has led the design and delivery of scalable, multi-tenant SaaS platforms and Infrastructure as Code practices at INX Software and now advises clients at Mechanical Rock on cloud-native solutions and data platforms. Chris blends hands-on software engineering (Node.js, Docker, AWS, Azure) with pragmatic DevOps—migrating legacy suites, building automated pipelines, and enabling rapid, auditable deployments. His background includes full-stack development, systems administration, and long-standing experience with AWS services and GitLab-driven CI/CD. Comfortable across startup and SMB environments, he emphasizes reliable, always-available systems and repeatable infrastructure patterns. Colleagues value his mix of practical troubleshooting from earlier IT support roles and his ability to translate operational needs into scalable cloud architectures.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
WACE, WACE at Wesley College, Perth, Western Australia
Github Skills (75)
amazon-cognito10
aws-s310
javascript10
amplify10
aws-apigateway10
pouchdb10
aws-amplify10
cloud-services10
storage10
typescript10
sst10
mobile-analytics10
barrage10
aws10
aws-mobile10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ConnectivityChris/multi-region-amplify
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:8 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 19 days
ConnectivityChris/aoc2023
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:12 pushes in 12 days
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