Summary
Chris Laplante is a seasoned IT infrastructure architect with 12+ years of experience leading large-scale datacenter, virtualization, and storage initiatives across startup and mature enterprise environments in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has overseen operations for thousands of users, hundreds of servers, and multi-petabyte SAN/NAS systems while driving transitions from physical to virtual architectures, introducing container strategies, and evaluating cloud migrations. Known for standardizing undocumented environments and automating operations with scripting, he combines hands-on troubleshooting with strategic planning to improve uptime, cost efficiency, and operational resilience. Chris has repeatedly delivered rapid, high-impact projects—such as urgent data center relocations and large hardware platform migrations—and earned formal recognition for those efforts. He brings a pragmatic blend of systems engineering, cross-team collaboration (U.S. and India), and documentation discipline that reduces risk and scales operations.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
New media, 3D design concentration, New media, 3D design concentration at American Academy of Art
Mechanical Drafting and Mechanical Drafting CAD/CADD, Mechanical Drafting and Mechanical Drafting CAD/CADD at Cabrillo College