Chris Kirby
Vice President Of Engineering at Goondocks Consulting
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolChris Kirby is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 14 years of experience architecting cloud-native, global-scale platforms and leading large distributed engineering organizations. He has repeatedly built engineering functions from the ground up—scaling teams to 100+ engineers and cutting cloud and infrastructure costs dramatically through modernization and platform engineering. As VP/SVP at high-growth companies and now running Goondocks Consulting, he focuses on agentic AI, LLM-powered developer tooling, and production-grade MCP infrastructure (notably Myco and unifi-mcp). Known for pragmatic adoption of AI tooling across enterprises and a hands-on approach to open source, he blends strategic leadership with deep technical execution across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Databricks, and real-time systems. Based in Detroit, he pairs startup velocity with enterprise rigor, often surfacing engineering practices (incidents, RFCs, OKRs) that drive measurable operational improvements.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Telecommunications, Bachelor of Arts, Telecommunications at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (119)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sirkirby/unifi-network-rules
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Allows you to manage, backup, and automate your UDM firewall policies, routes, and rules in Home Assistant
Contributions:32 releases, 62 PRs, 113 pushes in 6 months
automationhome-assistantintegrationunifi
sirkirby/twitter-bootstrap-nuget
Feb 2012 - Jan 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 73 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 11 months
nuget-packagestwitterbootstrapnugettwitter-bootstrap
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