Chris Turra
Sr. Principal Product Manager, Equinix Metal
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Turra is a senior product and infrastructure leader with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud and edge compute platforms, now shaping Equinix Metal as Sr. Principal Product Manager. He blends hands-on engineering and product strategy, having led the design and delivery of compute scheduling, operations, and full-stack ownership for thousands of servers across dozens of datacenters at Cisco and Menlo Security. A pragmatic DevOps advocate and SRE at heart, Chris has a track record of transforming monoliths into resilient microservices and shipping continuous-deployment systems that scale. He contributes to open source (notably a multi-arch Docker Chrony NTP image) and describes himself as a hacker and fixer—proof of a tinkerer who optimizes stability and security in production. Based in Vancouver, he pairs technical depth with people leadership, growing teams and operational maturity while keeping an engineer’s attention to detail.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
CIS Computers, CIS Computers at University of the Fraser Valley
Github Skills (8)
docker10
ntp10
dockers10
multiarch10
bash9
docker-compose9
cd8
cicd8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cturra/docker-ntp
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
🕒 Chrony NTP Server running in a Docker container (without the priviledged flag)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:4 reviews, 71 commits, 53 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the Docker-based NTP server's functionality and maintainability. They implemented multi-architecture support for the Docker image, enabling it to run on various platforms. The user also migrated the underlying NTP service from openntpd to chrony, enhancing stability and reducing resource usage. Furthermore, they introduced features such as configurable NTP servers and improved security through the use of tmpfs.
ntpdntpalpine-linuxdockerchrony
cturra/docker-basics
Sep 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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