Chris Redekop
Senior Data Engineer
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Redekop is a Senior Data Engineer with over 15 years of daily hands-on programming and 11 years of professional experience building cloud-native, test-driven systems that ship quickly. He blends Java EE craftsmanship and design-pattern fluency with pragmatic DevOps automation—turning commits into tested, deployed services using Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, Packer and AWS serverless. As a technical lead, Scrum Master and coach he drives strategic initiatives from inception to delivery and mentors teams to improve their delivery cadence. At YOURIKA Labs he applies AI to deliver real-time personalized learning at scale, after leading platform and architecture work at D2L and healthcare VNA projects at Agfa. An active contributor to open-source testing (notably adding AWS-focused tests and bug fixes to the InSpec framework), he pairs deep engineering discipline with a track record of operationalizing reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours Computing and Computer Electronics Philosophy, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours Computing and Computer Electronics Philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityMaster of Engineering (MEng) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (18)
inspec10
ruby10
aws10
minitest10
devsecops9
audit9
devops9
auditing9
compliance9
amazon-dynamodb6
go6
nodejs6
docker6
loops6
visual-studio-code6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
inspec/inspec
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
InSpec: Auditing and Testing Framework
Role in this project:
Backend & Test Automation Engineer
Backend & Test Automation EngineerContributions:26 commits, 2 issues in 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the InSpec framework by implementing and expanding unit and integration tests. Their work focused on testing the `aws_ec2` and `aws_iam_access_key` resources, including adding tests for instance existence, IAM access key properties, and IAM user MFA. They also added testing for AWS access keys. The user also addressed identified bugs in the EC2 resource's behavior.
testing-frameworkdevsecdevopsauditinspec
Brightspace/totem
Oct 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:18 PRs, 12 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 11 months
totemaws-cloudformationblueblue-greenpipeline
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