Chris Read
Owner at Chris Read & Associates
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Read is a seasoned Development Engineer in Chicago with 16 years bridging development and operations to help teams understand their runtime environments and build resilient infrastructure. Equally comfortable in Unix shells, scripting and networking, he has rotated between developer and sysadmin roles across trading, consultancy, and infrastructure firms, now blending both disciplines at Aquatic Capital Management while running his own consultancy. A Bare Metal DevOps advocate and occasional speaker, he brings deep experience from firms like DRW and ThoughtWorks, specializing in pragmatic solutions that favor observability and repeatability. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex network and system behavior into actionable changes that improve reliability and developer experience.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Matric, Matric at Westridge High SchoolBSc IT Information Technology (Incomplete), BSc IT Information Technology (Incomplete) at Rand Afrikaans University
Github Skills (154)
parallel10
python10
terraform10
hyperparameter-optimization10
aws-s310
linter10
ray10
optimization10
static-analysis10
jsonp10
teamcity10
graph10
reinforcement-learning10
azure-data-lake10
s3-bucket10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cread/ecks
Sep 2011 - Feb 2015
An easy way to get data out of SNMP without having to deal with the MIB
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 5 months
mibsnmp
cread/tcjson
Dec 2010 - Jul 2014
Server Side Plugin for TeamCity that allows JSON and JSONP integration for Jenkins/Hudson applications
Contributions:21 commits in 3 years 8 months
jenkinsjsonpserver-sideteamcity
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