Chris Oberle
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Oberle is a Principal Software Engineer based in Raleigh, NC, with nearly two decades of hands-on experience and 11 years in senior engineering roles focused on automation, DevOps, and high-performance systems. He has driven modernization and high-availability projects at Red Hat, IBM, SAS, and Intuit, consistently pairing rapid prototyping with test-driven development to improve reliability and deployment velocity. Chris excels at building and automating ETL and cloud-native solutions—most recently designing Spark-on-Kubernetes pipelines for enterprise performance management. He combines deep networking and TCP/IP troubleshooting skills with strong Java, JavaScript, and SQL expertise, enabling him to bridge infrastructure, platform, and application concerns. Known as a pragmatic thought leader, he has led internal tooling and provisioning efforts that materially reduced operational overhead and accelerated delivery. Outside the obvious résumé highlights, he brings a knack for translating legacy systems into modern, testable architectures while keeping the team morale high.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (43)
spring10
authentication10
spring-security10
java10
security10
spring-boot10
oauth10
kafka-topic9
kafka-cluster8
cluster-manager8
spring-integration8
mybatis7
yaml7
apache-kafka7
configurations6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chrisoberle/tutorials
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
The "REST With Spring" Classes:
Contributions:53 pushes in 6 months
spring-bootspringframeworkspring-mvcspringrest
chrisoberle/djsnackgo
May 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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