Chris Mckenzie
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Mckenzie is a veteran software engineer and technologist with decades of hands-on experience spanning system-level tooling, cloud services, and startup leadership. He has held technical and executive roles including CTO positions and senior engineering posts at companies like WaiveCar, REEF, and Vast.ai, bringing product-minded engineering to operationally complex domains. An active open-source contributor, he improved sysdig’s chisel subsystem to make container troubleshooting outputs more compact and informative, showing a knack for practical improvements to widely used tooling. Based in Los Angeles, he combines low-level C++ and Linux systems expertise with experience building teams and shipping cloud-native products. Known for a wry self-deprecating humor about “still not knowing what I’m doing,” his career nevertheless reflects a relentless curiosity and hands-on problem solving that predates mainstream cloud adoption.
50 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
draios/sysdig
Mar 2014 - May 2015
Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 6 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris implemented enhancements to the `sysdig` tool's chisel functionality, specifically focused on providing a more compact output for the `-cl` option and adding a new `-i` option to display detailed chisel information. These changes involved modifications to C++ code within `fields_info.cpp` and `chisel.cpp`, as well as updates to the header files. The user's work extended to incorporating argument and type information for a specific chisel, thus improving usability of the utility.
containerstroubleshootingseccomplinuxdocker
kristopolous/ComputerHistoryPodcast
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:122 commits, 101 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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