Chris Nelson
Software Engineer at AVEVA
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Nelson is a Senior DevSecOps Engineer based in California with eight years of hands-on experience building and securing production software pipelines. A Santa Clara University computer engineering graduate, he progressed from software developer to DevOps and now DevSecOps at AVEVA, gaining deep expertise in modern C++, C#, PowerShell, and pipeline automation for builds and tests. He has a proven track record of improving operational efficiency—earlier reducing hardware test cycles threefold at Festo—and now focuses on hardening CI/CD and infrastructure for enterprise data systems like PI Server. Comfortable communicating technical work to non-technical stakeholders from his IT support and customer-facing roles, he brings a user-focused mindset to infrastructure and security challenges. Outside of work he’s an avid college football fan and an aspiring iOS developer, reflecting a continued appetite for hands-on engineering and learning new platforms.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Senior, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Senior at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (7)
azure-devops9
powershell9
azure8
azure-pipelines8
devops8
microsoft7
agent7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CN120/CN120.github.io
Jul 2020 - Sep 2023
Personal Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 44 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 2 months
CN120/COEN_146-ComputerNetworks
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:29 commits, 25 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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