Chris Smolen
Manager Network Engineering at ePlus inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolChris Smolen is a Manager of Network Engineering in Portland with over 15 years designing, operating, and modernizing enterprise networks across security, wireless, and data center domains. He leads a team that drives legacy refreshes and builds highly available, cost-efficient networks while partnering with architecture and application teams to set standards and strategy. Hands-on through his career—from Tier III support to portfolio development—he emphasizes automation and orchestration (notably using Ansible) to streamline deployments and reduce operational toil. Chris also contributes to open-source Ansible documentation, improving examples and clarity for network automation users, reflecting a pragmatic focus on usability as well as technical depth.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Franklin Pierce UniversityAS, Computer Information Systems, AS, Computer Information Systems at NHTI, Concord's Community College
English
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Github Skills (4)
ansible-galaxy10
documentation10
ansible10
python5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 commits, 16 PRs, 13 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Ansible documentation, focusing on improving examples and clarifying usage. They fixed typos in existing examples, added new examples demonstrating specific features such as "when" keyword, aggregate logging, and peer keepalive with vrf and delay restore, and updated the documentation for the `say.py` module to clarify how to list available voices. These contributions primarily involved modifying code examples and documentation files to enhance the usability and clarity of the Ansible platform.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
smolz/ansible-1
Mar 2018 - Sep 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems.
Contributions:2 PRs, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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