Chris Selzo
Staff Engineer at VMware
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Selzo is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and hardening cloud-native systems, currently based in the Greater Seattle Area and working at VMware. He has deep expertise in backend engineering, test automation, and DevOps, demonstrated by sustained open-source contributions to Cloud Foundry projects—improving Cloud Controller logic, acceptance tests, deployment manifests, and CLI test coverage. Chris has progressed through senior technical roles at Pivotal, CenturyLink Cloud, and IBM, blending hands-on coding with operational rigor and large-scale deployment know-how. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill and a BS from RPI, bringing strong academic foundations to practical infrastructure problems. Notably, his work often focuses on manifest validation, service binding refactors, and making test suites and deployment scripts more robust—skills that reduce production risk and accelerate reliable releases. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who elevates platform reliability by relentlessly improving tests, tooling, and deployment processes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill
Github Skills (25)
integration-testing10
api-rest10
cloud-foundry10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
bash10
web-deploy10
cicd10
ruby10
cf-cli10
go10
web-deployment10
rest-api10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cf-deployment
May 2017 - Jan 2020
The canonical open source deployment manifest for Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:153 commits, 49 PRs, 102 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the configuration and testing of deployment manifests within the Cloud Foundry deployment project. Their work involved modifying shell scripts related to testing, specifically the `test-standard-ops.sh`, `test-experimental-ops.sh`, `test-legacy-ops.sh` and `semantic-tests.sh` scripts. They also updated the scripts to include new operations files and remove unused variables, ensuring the operational integrity of the system.
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cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Feb 2018 - Oct 2020
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:251 commits, 73 PRs, 282 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily focused on enhancing the backend logic of the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller, with a focus on service instance bindings and manifest validation. They refactored internal route binding logic and migrated it to a dedicated ServiceInstanceBindingManager. Furthermore, the user addressed and corrected validation errors within the app manifest processing, specifically addressing issues related to memory units and other manifest configurations. Lastly, they also improved deployment processes such as adding new strategies and applying the correct properties.
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