Chris Koehnke
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Top SchoolChris Koehnke is a seasoned release and continuous delivery engineer with over a decade of experience automating build, test, and deployment pipelines for large-scale systems. He has driven transformation at Elastic—rearchitecting a monolithic build into an asynchronous, distributed system—and built cloud-native CI/CD platforms using Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and vault. Comfortable across languages (Ruby, JavaScript, Java, Python, Go) and tooling, he focuses on simplicity, robust integration testing, and hardening third-party interactions to keep shipping predictable. An active open-source contributor, his DevOps work includes improvements to elastic/helm-charts and the Tekton CLI to streamline Kubernetes-based builds and developer workflows. Colleagues rely on him to bridge deep engineering craft with pragmatic operational judgement, and he’s known for automating “all of the things” (and for an appreciation of Planck keyboards). He prefers contact through his personal site, where he centralizes code and email.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science and Engineering Technology, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science and Engineering Technology at The University of Toledo
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
docker10
command-line-interface10
tekton10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
pipeline10
command-line10
automations10
cli10
makefile9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/helm-charts
Feb 2019 - Mar 2021
You know, for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 72 reviews, 40 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the build and deployment processes within the Kubernetes-based Helm chart repository. Their contributions include improvements to version bumping scripts, adding support for staging images, and incorporating image pull secrets. They also modified makefiles to improve the testing framework and update Docker image namespaces, automating parts of the testing and deployment pipeline. The user's work aimed to streamline the development and testing of Helm charts.
kubernetes-clusterk8skuberneteshelm
tektoncd/cli
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
A CLI for interacting with Tekton!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on refining the command-line interface (CLI) for the Tekton project. Their contributions included removing unnecessary parameters and debug statements, improving error handling, and modifying the argument validation process. They also addressed a specific issue related to namespace configuration in the pipeline start command, ensuring correct behavior. These changes collectively enhance the usability and stability of the CLI tool.
pipelinetektoncommand-linetekton-pipelinescli
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