Chris Paika
Staff Engineer at Tesla
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChris Paika is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and telemetry systems, currently focused on battery telemetry at Tesla. He has a strong track record migrating legacy services to Kubernetes and OpenShift, architecting CI/CD pipelines that cut build times eightfold and reducing time-to-bootstrapping for new services from months to days. At Constant Contact he led a seven-engineer team to deliver an enterprise platform across AWS EKS and on-prem, improving developer productivity and local setup from hours to minutes. Comfortable across the stack, Chris has shipped Spring Boot services, frontend single-page applications, and payment systems that handled millions in monthly transactions. Known for pragmatic automation and platform thinking, he combines hands-on coding with mentoring and process improvements that scale teams as well as systems. Based in Boston, he pairs a UMass Amherst CS background with deep operational experience in production telemetry and containerized infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (173)
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coredns10
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gcp10
dns10
kubernetes-setup10
dns-record10
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kubernetes-deployment10
high-performance10
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kubernetes10
kafka10
aws-cloudformation10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cpaika/tech-blog-v3.github.io
Apr 2020 - May 2023
My Jekyll based technical blog, hosted via Github Pages at https://paika.tech
Contributions:113 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
hostedjekylljekyll-basedtechnical-blog
cpaika/chrispaikav2
Oct 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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