Summary
Chris Staunton is a Lead Automation Engineer with 13 years of enterprise IT experience building data centers, designing Hyper-V/Cisco UCS infrastructures, and automating large-scale cloud and on-prem deployments. He currently leads major incident response across an enterprise, coordinating cross-functional teams to rapidly diagnose and remediate networking, application, and cloud issues while shifting practices from reactive firefighting to proactive reliability. His background spans Windows, Red Hat Linux, Mac OS X, and broad networking stacks, and he’s delivered large Hyper-V/VMware environments with thousands of VMs. Known for combining hands-on systems engineering with strong project leadership, he has repeatedly translated complex requirements into repeatable, automated infrastructure. An early small-business founder and long-time educator of practical IT solutions, he still maintains a pragmatic focus on minimizing downtime and operational risk.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate, General Studies, 3.83, Graduate, General Studies, 3.83 at Anderson Union High School
General Studies, General Studies, General Studies, General Studies at Shasta College
Global Knowledge
English