Chris Powell is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience designing, automating, and operating large-scale, highly available cloud systems across AWS and GCP. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Ruby, Python, Linux, and a wide DevOps toolchain (Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Chef/Ansible, Prometheus, ELK) and a track record of rapidly prototyping and productionizing API-driven services. At Datto and previously Pathwire and Rackspace he architected resilient distributed infrastructures and led cross-functional projects to improve uptime and deployment velocity. He pairs operational rigor with a passion for automation and mentorship, having organized a local SaltStack meetup and led engineering teams supporting global VoD platforms. A former Marine Corps corporal with past TS/SCI clearance, he combines disciplined, mission-focused problem solving with deep infrastructure craft.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Information Systems at California State University-Los Angeles
Contributions:44 commits, 22 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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Chris Powell - Staff Site Reliability Engineer I at Datto, Inc.