Summary
Chris Maxwell is an Engineering Manager in Greater Vancouver with 12 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native, customer-facing services and operational teams. He combines hands-on SRE and systems engineering roots with leadership roles that drove multi-million-dollar revenue expansion, massive deployment automation, and large-scale migrations across hundreds of services. Chris specializes in making high-velocity change safe: instituting automated provisioning, incident learning, and delivery controls that cut deployment time and errors dramatically. He has repeatedly grown and coached global teams, embedding “you build it, you run it” culture to increase ownership and throughput. Notably, he led programs that enabled private connectivity for regulated customers and migrated thousands of resources to infrastructure-as-code, producing direct cost and market gains. Pragmatic and people-focused, he pairs deep technical fluency with coaching to keep systems resilient without slowing delivery.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
English, Japanese