Chris Perry
Senior Data Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Perry is a Senior Data Engineer with 13 years of experience applying data science and engineering to international relations, conflict prevention, and governance challenges. He combines policy domain expertise from roles at IPI and NRGI with hands-on cloud-native engineering—managing Kubernetes and CI/CD in GCP and AWS and building ETL, API, and visualization stacks in Python, Node, and SQL/MongoDB. Chris has led small engineering teams and delivered production systems for startups and analytics firms, from an insuretech navigation engine to enterprise-grade data labs for peacekeeping and resource governance. His work blends geospatial and ML experimentation (including GeoTrellis and subnational predictive modeling) with practical data ops, showing a knack for turning policy questions into auditable analytics. Based in Chicago, he pairs interdisciplinary research training (MPA, philosophy of science) with pragmatic tooling skills across Tableau, D3, ElasticSearch, and containerized deployments.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Philosophy of Science, BA, Philosophy of Science at University of WashingtonMasters, Public Administration, Masters, Public Administration at Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs
English, Hausa, French, German
Github Skills (86)
scheduling10
kubernetes10
go10
docker10
mesos9
gcp9
metadata9
kubernetes-monitoring9
aws9
api8
linode8
prediction8
k8s8
api-client8
linkedin8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
civisanalytics/civis-devops-interview-excercise
Feb 2019 - Sep 2021
Required for a simple app deployment scenario.
Contributions:14 PRs, 21 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 7 months
devopsdeploymentscenariosimple-appcicd
NRGI/rgi-assessment-tool
Nov 2014 - Jul 2016
MEAN build of RGI 2015 assessment tool
Contributions:2142 commits, 54 PRs, 965 pushes in 1 year 8 months
assessmentassessment-toolrgi
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