Chris Negus
Author, Freelance at Waterside Productions, Inc.
Greater Saginaw-Midland-Bay City Area United States
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Top SchoolChris Negus is a seasoned technical author and open source documentation specialist with over two decades writing about Linux, containers, and Kubernetes. He authored the Red Hat Linux Bible and numerous Linux/UNIX titles, and has translated that domain expertise into senior doc roles at Red Hat and AWS, where he led EKS, ECR, Karpenter, and EKS Anywhere documentation. As a former RHCE instructor and principal writer, he combines hands-on teaching experience with deep operational knowledge of virtualization, CoreOS, and OpenShift security and architecture. Chris bridges product and community worlds—serving on Kubernetes release teams and producing both user guides and project documentation for OSS initiatives. Based in the Saginaw–Midland–Bay City area, he freelances through Waterside Productions while continuing to shape cloud-native docs and learning materials. An ability to turn complex, certification-level topics into practical, approachable guidance is a recurring strength across his career.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS Communications, BS Communications at S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse UniversityPrinceton High School
Github Skills (64)
autoscaling10
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
distro10
docker10
commons10
kubernetes-cluster10
kubernetes-service10
vmware10
cost-optimization10
terraform10
user-guide10
security10
kubernetes-deployment10
kubernetes-node10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
chrisnegus/website
May 2021 - May 2024
Kubernetes website and documentation repo:
Contributions:3 PRs, 57 pushes, 25 branches in 3 years
k8skubernetes
chrisnegus/aws-eks-best-practices
Feb 2022 - Jan 2025
A best practices guide for day 2 operations, including operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
cost-optimizationsecurityoptimizationdayoperational
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