Chris Wedgwood
Owner at Hamiltom Project Management Ltd
Isle of Man
Summary
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RockstarChris Wedgwood is a seasoned owner and software professional with 26 years of experience, based on the Isle of Man, who blends entrepreneurial leadership with deep hands-on DevOps expertise. He has focused on cloud-native deployments and reliability engineering, contributing to high-profile open-source tooling like the OpenStack Helm charts to improve startup timeouts, dependency handling, and deployment efficiency. As owner of Hamiltom Project Management Ltd he applies pragmatic infrastructure improvements to deliver resilient production systems and streamlined build pipelines. Colleagues would describe him as quietly effective—his GitHub bio reads “Uncool since day 1,” but his contributions show a pragmatic, results-first mindset. He brings a long view to operational stability, preferring incremental, automatable fixes that reduce flakiness in complex Kubernetes/OpenStack environments. His mix of ownership experience and sustained open-source impact makes him a practical choice for organizations needing reliable cloud deployment expertise.
26 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
bash10
helm10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
openstack8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/openstack-helm
May 2017 - Aug 2021
Helm charts for deploying OpenStack on Kubernetes. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:89 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the project's infrastructure and deployment aspects, focusing on enhancing the OpenStack Helm charts for Kubernetes. They made changes to the gate scripts, introducing and modifying timeouts for pod and node startup, and implemented optimizations to streamline the build and deployment process. Additionally, the user updated the gate scripts, addressing dependencies and ensuring proper operation within the OpenStack Helm environment. These modifications reflect their focus on improving the reliability and efficiency of the deployment process.
helmkubernetesopenstack
cwedgwood/zfs
Sep 2012 - Aug 2021
Native ZFS for Linux
Contributions:7 commits, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years
linuxzfs
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