Summary
Chris Szikszoy is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect with 17 years of experience designing and delivering complex virtualization, networking, and embedded systems for government and commercial customers. Holding VCA-DCV, CCNA, and an active DoD Secret clearance, he blends deep hands‑on expertise in VMware, Linux, Cisco Catalyst/Nexus, and real‑time firmware with full‑stack scripting in C, C#, Python, bash and PHP. At Raytheon he led network engineering for large transportation programs, built virtualized server environments and wrote safety‑critical dispatch and monitoring software, and continues to drive architecture and customer engagements at VeriToll. He’s comfortable across hardware, firmware and software boundaries—from Atmel‑based mapping platforms to SAN‑backed render/storage solutions—and has a knack for turning operational constraints into pragmatic, maintainable designs. Based in Los Angeles with dual EE/CpE degrees, he pairs systems‑level rigor with practical field experience installing and supporting mission‑critical networks.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly Pomona
English, German