Chris Olstrom
Senior Software Engineer at SUSE
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarChris Olstrom is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience blending systems engineering and software craftsmanship, currently building at SUSE. A polyglot who favors Ruby but has been increasingly drawn to Rust, he brings deep expertise across Linux/Unix platforms (Linux since 1999, SmartOS, BSDs, Solaris derivatives) and cross-architecture portability (x86, ARM, MIPS, SPARC, Power). His background spans the full stack of development and ops—networking, hardware, packaging (Gems, RPM/DEB/APK, containers), CI/CD, and automation with tools like Ansible, Chef, Salt, and Terraform—plus strong AWS skills and competence with Azure and GCP. Comfortable communicating technical ideas and leading discussions, he combines warm, engaging presentation skills with a pragmatic willingness to admit gaps or defend principled positions. An active observer of the open source landscape, he leverages community projects to avoid costly reinvention and accelerate delivery. Located in Abbotsford, BC, he brings a practical, portability-first mindset that often reveals simpler, more reusable solutions where others reach for custom builds.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
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51kreached
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Github Skills (200)
container-management10
digital-signature10
ubuntu10
erc72110
1password10
cattle10
erc2010
signature-verification10
rancher10
erc115510
read-text10
rake10
ansible-role10
continuous-delivery10
elm10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
colstrom/unpkg
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:301 commits, 2 PRs, 107 pushes in 5 months
phpstandards
colstrom/invocations
May 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches, 3 tags in 4 years 6 months
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