Chris Watkins
Lead Infrastructure Engineer, Storage at Ferguson Enterprises
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Watkins is a Lead Infrastructure Engineer specializing in storage with 11 years of hands-on experience across Unix/Linux, cloud systems, SAN storage, backups, orchestration, automation, and disaster recovery. Based in the Atlanta metro area, he currently leads storage infrastructure at Ferguson Enterprises, driving reliability and operational resilience for critical systems. A pragmatic troubleshooter and self-starter, he excels at turning complex failure modes into repeatable, automated responses. He pairs deep systems knowledge with practical orchestration to reduce downtime and streamline recovery playbooks. Outside of formal bios he brings a wry sense of humor and candidness that helps cut through meetings and focus teams on technical outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (73)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ratmav/dotfiles
May 2017 - Jan 2023
home sweet home.
Contributions:505 commits, 11 PRs, 747 pushes in 5 years 8 months
dotfilesansibleconfigurationconfigbash
ratmav/syfe
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
(sy)ntax highlighting, (f)olding, and whit(e)space management
Contributions:5 PRs, 40 pushes, 15 branches in 4 years 3 months
foldingsyntax-highlightingvim-plugin
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