Chris Montes
Software Dev Staff Engineer Cloud Edge Security at SonicWall
Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolChris Montes is a cloud and edge security-focused Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience modernizing infrastructure through containerization, Kubernetes, and immutable Infrastructure patterns. Currently at SonicWall after Banyan Security’s acquisition, he blends deep DevOps craft—CI/CD, Terraform, Vault, Helm—and vulnerability-first thinking to build secure, cloud-agnostic platforms across AWS, GCP, and private clouds. He has a proven track record migrating legacy workloads (P2V, V2V) into containerized production environments and automating delivery pipelines that enforce image security and compliance. A seasoned Linux and Windows engineer, Chris pairs low-level systems fluency with network troubleshooting and SRE practices to reduce toil and harden operations. Based in Longmont, CO, he’s known for turning complex infrastructure projects into repeatable, automated systems and for bringing a security lens to everyday DevOps work.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems, Information Systems at Metropolitan State University of Denver
Github Skills (200)
scheduling10
k8s10
mesos10
jsonnet10
user-registration10
dokku10
amazon10
aws-secrets-manager10
kubernetes-monitoring10
staking10
terraform10
docker-container10
kustomize10
continuous-delivery10
pods10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
lodotek/devops-interview-questions-answers
Mar 2022 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
lodotek/sapho-mysql-docker-azure
Aug 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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