Chris Powers
Principal Engineer at GetReal Labs
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Powers is a Principal Engineer with two decades of hands-on experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms for startups and large enterprises. He has led cross-functional and distributed teams to modernize legacy systems, containerize infrastructures, and cut cloud costs dramatically—once reducing AWS spend by 90% through architecture and containerization. Comfortable across the stack, Chris designs resilient, secure systems using Kubernetes, .NET Core, AWS/Azure, and a mix of languages from C# and Java to Python and TypeScript. He pairs deep operational experience (SOC 2, SSO, SIEM) with a product-minded approach honed as a CTO and founder, enabling tight integration between engineering, security, and business needs. Based in Austin and trained as a mechanical engineer at the University of Waterloo, he brings an analytical, systems-first mindset to software problems and a track record of turning research-grade ideas into production services. An uncommon detail: he’s applied his early work in energy modeling and IoT to inform scalable, instrumented platforms that bridge physical systems and cloud services.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BASc Mechanical Engineering, BASc Mechanical Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (80)
django9
sidecar9
azure9
management9
python9
serverless9
event-driven9
state-management9
pubsub9
client-library8
verify8
portable8
microservices8
microsoft-azure8
class-library8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cjlpowers/TypeScripter
Mar 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:88 commits, 9 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 years 11 months
dotnetclass-librarynet-assembliestypescript-definitioncsharp
leaseq/api-docs
Nov 2017 - May 2018
LeaseQ API documentation
Contributions:26 PRs, 46 pushes, 14 branches in 6 months
apiapi-documentation
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