Chris Walker
Lead Engineer at Target
Mound, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Walker is a pragmatic infrastructure leader with 11+ years at Target and a two-decade IT career delivering large-scale, highly available server and systems management solutions for 300K+ users and multi-data-center environments. As Lead Engineer he architects store-hosting and lifecycle refresh projects, driving replatforming from Windows/Hyper-V to CentOS/KVM, hardware selection, automation, and monitoring while negotiating vendor and acquisition details. He’s repeatedly been tapped to lead strategic initiatives—building Chef-driven automation, CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins/Drone, and cross-platform systems management that spans Windows and CentOS/RHEL. Chris blends deep Microsoft Windows Server, Active Directory, clustering and DNS expertise with modern open-source observability stacks (Sensu, Telegraf, Influx, Grafana) and has published practical tooling (e.g., a DSC security module) to close real-world gaps. Known for translating ambiguous problems into documented, supportable solutions, he also brings hands-on scripting skills (PowerShell, Ruby, Bash) and a history of introducing Agile practices into ops teams.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Business Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Business Computer Information Systems at St. Cloud State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Computer Information Systems at St. Cloud State University - Herberger Business School
Github Skills (25)
powershell-dsc9
dsc9
lvm9
rights9
mruby8
scale8
kitchen8
infrastructure8
cookbook8
devops8
test-kitchen7
ansible7
automation7
chef-infra7
windows-security6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisAWalker/cSecurityOptions
Jan 2016 - Jul 2018
This PowerShell DSC Module is designed to modify Windows security options. The first module (UserRightsAssignment) is used to modify Windows rights assignments for accounts.
Contributions:15 commits, 18 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 6 months
windowspowershelldscmodifyrights
ChrisAWalker/cSecurityOptions_cookbook
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
policycookbookwindowssecurity-policypowershell
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