Chris Trotter
SRE Manager at Replicant
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Trotter is an SRE manager and platform engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building resilient cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, and CI/CD practices across AWS, Terraform, and Python ecosystems. He excels in transition periods—making unseen operational risks visible, improving team flow, and redesigning sociotechnical systems to amplify feedback and continuous improvement. As a people-first manager he prioritizes psychological safety, mentoring, and measurable team performance, pairing empathy with a pragmatic focus on business-impacting SRE practices. His background ranges from managing hundreds of servers and datacenter migrations to leading platform teams that reduce cloud spend and streamline delivery. He’s driven by humility, continuous learning, and a commitment to giving back through mentorship and community. Based in Ontario, Canada, Chris brings a knack for turning messy change into durable operational capability.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
CST Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, CST Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Fanshawe College
Github Skills (145)
firmware10
qmk10
terraform10
arm10
terraform-module10
keyboard10
avr10
packer10
atmel10
rp204010
usb10
terraform-provider10
aws10
continuous-testing9
monitoring9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
christrotter/qmk_firmware
Jun 2023 - Nov 2024
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:144 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
christrotter/gootsmoji
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
Collection of very useful slack emojis.
Contributions:7 reviews, 78 PRs, 60 pushes in 7 months
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