Chris Phillips is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud-native infrastructure, observability, and Kubernetes deployments. He has led cloud infrastructure teams and SRE efforts at companies from Nike and Netflix to Rev and is currently building infrastructure at Truemed. Chris is a practical engineer who focuses on developer "paved roads," automation, and reliable deployment pipelines that scale across AWS-hosted Kubernetes clusters. As an active contributor to the widely used kubernetes/kops project, he has deep hands-on experience integrating CNIs like Lyft's cni-ipvlan-vpc-k8s and improving networking and build tooling. Based in Livermore, CA, he pairs systems-level design with pragmatic implementation, favoring measurable operational improvements. He’s seeking his next role where he can continue to advance observability and deployment reliability at scale.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Computer Science, BS in Computer Science at Neumont College of Computer Science
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
Contributions:18 commits, 8 PRs, 27 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the networking aspects of the kops project, specifically focusing on supporting and integrating various CNI plugins. They implemented support for Lyft's cni-ipvlan-vpc-k8s and made several updates related to its configuration. The user also worked on infrastructure-related changes, including updates to dependencies and build processes. In addition, the user provided updates on the documentation.
Kubernetes Operations (kops) - Production Grade K8s Installation, Upgrades, and Management
Contributions:1 PR, 62 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year
installationgradeproduction-gradek8skubernetes
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