Chris Ladd
Senior Staff Systems Engineer at ServiceNow
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Ladd is a Senior Staff Systems Engineer with 12+ years of hands-on experience building and operating full-stack systems from bare-metal Linux provisioning to front-end JavaScript. Currently at ServiceNow, he excels at designing reliable CI/CD pipelines, optimizing database layers, and authoring automated test frameworks—skills honed while core-developing the Stacki open-source bare-metal installer at Teradata. Comfortable across Python, Bash, C/C++, and web stacks, he pairs systems-level Linux administration with web application and API development for high-availability services. Based in San Diego, he’s known for self-driven learning and for shipping pragmatic infrastructure tooling and “glue” code that keeps complex platforms running smoothly. An understated strength is his long history of managing mixed cloud and colocation fleets using Ansible and custom automation, bridging ops and dev effectively.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (56)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
caladd/stacki
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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Teradata/stacki
Sep 2017 - Oct 2020
Linux Cluster Builder - Bare Metal Red Hat & SUSE
Contributions:22 reviews, 309 commits, 219 PRs in 3 years 1 month
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