Chris Routh
Principal Engineer I at Menlo Security Inc.
Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Routh is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently driving platform reliability at Menlo Security. He blends deep DevOps and systems administration skills—Docker, Kubernetes, Python, VMware and multi-cloud—with a strong background in networking and storage to deliver resilient, scalable systems. His career spans senior roles at Menlo and Cisco and earlier work as a freelancer and CTO, giving him practical full-stack experience from web stacks (PHP, Apache/NGINX, Varnish) to large-scale cloud engineering. Colleagues value his pragmatic approach to automation and incident response, and his early career in technical support and operations gives him a user-focused perspective on reliability. Based in Campbell River, BC, he pairs enterprise-grade tooling with a freelancer’s resourcefulness, often bridging gaps between ops, security, and development.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeCo-operative Education Computer Installation and Repair Technology/Technician, Co-operative Education Computer Installation and Repair Technology/Technician at Thousand Islands Secondary SchoolHTML Creation and Design Programming, HTML Creation and Design Programming at St. Lawrence CollegeNetwork Support Specialist Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Network Support Specialist Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Academy of Learning
English, French
Stackoverflow
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django
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gitlab
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gitlab-ci
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django-rest-framework
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Github Skills (200)
html-editor10
bitnami10
horde10
ubuntu10
chat10
automation10
edtech10
modular10
ecosystem10
credit-card10
file-sharing10
api10
csi10
diaspora10
finance10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
celerityweb/django-jsonschema
Sep 2015 - Dec 2024
django-jsonschema converts Django Forms into JSON Schema compatibile representations
Contributions:2 PRs in 9 years 5 months
pythonrepresentationsdjango-rest-frameworkdjangojsonschema
Routhinator/tekkest
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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