Chris Jones
Site Reliability Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Jones is a Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience building and maintaining production infrastructure, currently supporting Palantir Technologies from Alexandria, VA. He combines strong communication and problem-solving skills with deep *nix system administration expertise—especially Linux and FreeBSD—gained across roles from help desk and hospital networks to IT consulting and SRE. Chris has hands-on experience automating deployments and service management, including contributing FreeBSD init script automation for the Gate One HTML5 terminal emulator. He excels at translating operational pain points into repeatable automation and reliable runbooks, and brings a psychology background that informs his user-focused approach to incident response and cross-team collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Psychology, Bachelor, Psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (6)
bash10
freebsd10
automation9
automations9
system-administration9
python8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
liftoff/GateOne
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Gate One is an HTML5-powered terminal emulator and SSH client
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on integrating and automating the setup process for the Gate One terminal emulator on FreeBSD systems. Their contributions involved creating and modifying init scripts to automatically install and configure Gate One to run as a service. The user also made changes to the setup process within `setup.py` to ensure the init scripts are correctly copied and enabled during installation. The work culminated in automated installation of FreeBSD init scripts, improving the user experience.
xtermemulatorgateterminal-emulatorssh
gr0undzer0/xp
Dec 2013 - Oct 2015
XP - A todo.txt module designed to print a redable guide of your acomplishments.
Contributions:20 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 10 months
todo-txttxttodo
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