Summary
Chris Stufflebeam is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in California with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems. He has progressed through multiple senior SRE roles at LinkedIn, shaping reliability and operational practices at scale, and earlier designed backend architectures and AWS deployments for startups and enterprise clients using Python, C++, and system-level tooling. Chris blends hands-on systems programming—having implemented parsers, distributed processing frameworks, and message-based pipelines—with cloud operations and HIPAA-compliant monitoring. Known for moving between deep engineering work and system architecture, he brings practical experience deploying services across millions of hosts as well as tighter, secure production environments. His self-taught computer science background underlines a pragmatic, curiosity-driven approach to solving hard infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Self Taught