Chris Richardson
Manager, Cyber Defense - PKI Engineering at RTX
McKinney, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChris Richardson is a seasoned cyber defense and systems engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling enterprise PKI and large Unix/Linux infrastructures. As Manager of PKI Engineering at RTX, he leads the Generation 3 PKI effort to consolidate certification services across Collins, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon for 70,000+ users. His hands-on background spans Entrust and Microsoft CAs, HSMs, SAN and VMware engineering, automation via extensive Bash scripting, and successful zero-downtime hardware refreshes and DFARS compliance efforts. Chris combines operational rigor from long-term large-scale system administration with strategic program delivery, having driven audits, cross-certifications, and capacity expansions tied to federal trust requirements. Based in McKinney, Texas, he holds an active DoD Secret clearance and a knack for turning legacy environments into automated, auditable platforms. Unusually for a manager, he remains deeply technical—still designing OCSP/HSM integrations and building custom certificate-management tools.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Education (major) and History (minor), Bachelor of Science - BS, Education (major) and History (minor) at University of North Texas
Github Skills (6)
sh8
bash5
shellcheck5
linux4
shell4
zsh4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
christr/Linux-Shell-Scripts
Jan 2013 - Feb 2021
General Shell Scripts
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes in 8 years 2 months
shell-scriptslinuxbashshellcheckshell
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