Chris Johnson
Senior Operations Engineer
Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolChris Johnson is a Senior Operations Engineer with 18 years of experience designing and operating resilient, cost-efficient infrastructure for SaaS and enterprise products. He currently helps drive platform and infrastructure reliability at Secureframe while running his own consulting firm, drawing on a background that spans hands-on engineering, team leadership, and IT operations. Previously he led IT operations at Healthfinch, where he cut AWS costs by over 40%, migrated multi-terabyte Postgres workloads to RDS, and steered a move from servers to containerized infrastructure. His career includes building scalable Rails systems and CI/CD practices at Getty Images and managing full SDLC ownership as a senior development manager. An author of practical web development recipes and a former college instructor, he blends technical depth with a talent for coaching teams and operationalizing best practices. Based in Wisconsin, he is the kind of pragmatic engineer who pairs cost-conscious architecture with automation and measurable improvements in reliability.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science / Information Technology, Computer Science / Information Technology at University of Wisconsin-StoutBachelor of Business Administration, Information Systems - Business Analysis, Bachelor of Business Administration, Information Systems - Business Analysis at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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Github Skills (62)
protected8
pasting7
validation-rules7
ruby7
rails-api7
rails7
ruby-on-rails7
aws-codedeploy7
rack6
html6
database6
webforms6
business-logic6
authentication6
fixture6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
johnsonch/crux
Apr 2015 - Oct 2022
A demo application for pasting code snippets
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 10 branches in 7 years 7 months
pastingtypescriptsnippets
johnsonch/cjlms
Aug 2017 - Oct 2022
My own custom learning management system
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 3 months
management-systemlearning-management-systemlearning-management
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