Chris Marslender
VP, Infrastructure And Ops at Chia Tracker
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
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Top SchoolChris Marslender is a seasoned infrastructure and platform leader with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native and on-premise systems, now serving as VP of Infrastructure and Ops at Chia Network. He blends hands-on engineering—Go, Python, Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform—with strategic stewardship of developer platforms, global orchestration, and security-first automation (short-lived credentials, GitOps). As founder of Chia Tracker he built a scalable tracking and reporting stack that processes blockchain data in real time, and he’s an active open-source contributor to key Chia repos including chia-docker and chia-blockchain. His background spans leading large engineering teams, migrating enterprise CI/CD to self-hosted platforms, and cost-optimized Elasticsearch and Kubernetes architectures. Colleagues rely on him for practical, auditable automation that bridges developer experience and critical blockchain operations. An uncommon detail: he maintains tooling that collects deep operational and blockchain metrics used for both alerting and long-form stability analysis.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
api-rest10
github-ci10
docker10
gitlab-api10
python10
back-end-development10
scripting10
api-design10
restful-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
wordpress10
bash10
ch10
dockers10
cicd10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
10up/wp-local-docker
Nov 2016 - Apr 2019
****** WP Local Docker V2 is now available - https://github.com/10up/wp-local-docker-v2
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:77 commits, 45 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily involve modifying and improving the setup scripts and configuration for the `wp-local-docker` environment. They made changes to the `setup.bat` and `setup.sh` scripts, refactoring the commands used to configure and install WordPress. They also focused on running WP-CLI commands with the correct user privileges and on modifying the underlying docker container configurations. These changes ensure the proper setup and deployment of a local WordPress development environment.
wordpressdocker
Chia-Network/chia-docker
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:100 reviews, 28 commits, 119 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris focused on improving the `chia-docker` repository's functionality and maintainability. Their contributions primarily involved modifying the `docker-entrypoint.sh` and `docker-start.sh` scripts, enhancing the Dockerfile, and improving the configuration of the Chia blockchain environment within the Docker containers. Key changes included adding crawler options, setting default configurations, and ensuring proper execution of Chia commands within the Dockerized environment. They also made improvements to the build process, CI/CD pipeline setup and overall operational aspects of the docker image.
chia-blockchainchiadocker
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