Chris Kinsman
Sr Director - Software Engineering at T-Mobile
Redmond, Washington, United States
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SeniorChris Kinsman is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years in senior management roles and a 30+ year engineering career spanning startups to large enterprises, currently serving as Sr Director of Software Engineering at T-Mobile in Redmond. He combines deep technical expertise across cloud, containers, DevOps and the full stack—from data centers and storage to web browsers—with hands-on architecture and SaaS platform experience (Kubernetes, Snowflake, Postgres, NodeJS, .NET). Known for leading large-scale process transformations, he has repeatedly moved organizations to agile SDLCs, built high-performing cross-functional teams, and managed multiple concurrent enterprise programs. Chris has a history of founding and advising organizations (Vergent Software, PushSpring) and running community efforts for .NET developers, showing a blend of entrepreneurial drive and community stewardship. He’s equally comfortable translating complex technical concepts for business stakeholders and diving into infrastructure or code when needed, often improving availability and operational maturity by orders of magnitude. A pragmatic technologist, he pairs architectural rigor with practical delivery—repeatedly turning legacy products into scalable, cloud-native services.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
api-platform10
bots10
geocoding10
aws-sdk-js-v310
nodejs10
scraper10
terraform-provider10
google-play10
sms10
terraform10
docker-container10
editor10
csv10
facebook-messenger10
geonames10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
chriskinsman/blinkt-k8s-pod-visualization
Jul 2020 - Apr 2025
Visualize k8s pod placement using Pimoroni Blinkt displays on Raspberry PI
Contributions:40 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 8 months
raspberry-pipimoronidisplaysvisualizeplacement
chriskinsman/DynamoDbExportCsv
Oct 2014 - May 2019
A utility to export DyanmoDb tables to csv files
Contributions:1 release, 44 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 7 months
csv
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