Chris Stella
Staff Solutions Architecture Specialist at HashiCorp
Glendale, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Stella is a Staff Solutions Architecture Specialist with nine years of focused experience building secure, automated infrastructure at scale, currently working at HashiCorp from Glendale, Arizona. He brings deep hands-on expertise in virtualization, cloud automation, VMware and Cisco data center technologies, and has advanced through customer-facing and technical architecture roles that blend implementation with strategic guidance. Chris is comfortable translating complex production requirements into automated, repeatable infrastructure—leveraging tools like PowerShell/PowerCLI, vRO/vRA, and UCS—and has a track record of designing and operating large-scale environments. His background in both systems engineering and domain architecture gives him a practical edge when bridging legacy datacenter operations with modern cloud-native workflows. An ongoing theme in his career is turning intricate infrastructure challenges into auditable, automated solutions that reduce operational risk.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
CCNA210 - Mastering Entry Level Internetworking, CCNA210 - Mastering Entry Level Internetworking at InterfaceAssociate of Arts and Sciences (AAS) Computer Engineering, Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS) Computer Engineering at Glendale Community CollegeManaging and Maintaining Windows Server 2003, Managing and Maintaining Windows Server 2003 at New HorizonsInformatics, Informatics at Western International University
Github Skills (29)
hashicorp-vault10
graph10
secrets10
security10
vault10
encryption10
terraform9
hashicorp9
aws9
golang9
go9
decks9
access-management9
terragrunt8
terraform-module8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cstella84/customer-iac-demo
Sep 2021 - Jun 2023
HashiCorp products demo
Contributions:8 PRs, 30 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 9 months
hashicorp
cstella84/terraform-azure-vault-ent-starter
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
A Terraform Module for provisioning an Enterprise Vault cluster (using integrated storage) as described by HashiCorp reference architecture.
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
provisioningintegratedvault-clusterconfluent-cloudvault
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