Chris Plock
Lead Kubernetes Orchestration Engineer
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Plock is a Lead Kubernetes Orchestration Engineer based in Los Angeles with 13 years of professional experience and a 25+-year technical career that started in enterprise Java. He designs and implements cloud-native orchestration and OpenStack solutions at Cisco, having evolved from a Principal Engineer role at Earthlink into leadership of large-scale infrastructure projects used by millions. Chris combines hands-on systems engineering with team leadership, translating complex requirements into reliable, production-grade platforms that tie directly to business outcomes. His background spans on-prem and cloud transitions, deep orchestration expertise, and a master’s in computer science, enabling him to bridge architecture, operations, and developer needs. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that scale, and he brings uncommon longevity and continuity across multiple generations of internet infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science in College of Engineering, M.S. Computer Science in College of Engineering at Louisiana Tech University
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Github Skills (36)
pythonic10
command-execution10
task-management9
arp9
protocols9
bgp9
load-balancer8
ospf8
python8
neovim-plugin8
task-manager8
raspberry8
bare-metal8
keepalived8
linter8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
plockc/DevOps
Mar 2013 - Mar 2017
Contributions:151 commits, 14 pushes in 4 years
plockc/pi-infra
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
home infrastructure based on raspberry pi, including netboot and kubernetes cluster
Contributions:73 commits, 5 PRs, 70 pushes in 2 years 7 months
bare-metalraspberry-pinetbootraspberryinfrastructure
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