Chris Williams
Senior DevOps Engineer at Spreetail
Bennington, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Williams is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, data pipelines, and operational tooling across defense and commercial sectors. He has led Agile teams and modernized legacy systems at Northrop Grumman, saved a large healthcare client over $10M by architecting tested BigQuery/DBT pipelines at Optum, and currently drives platform reliability and automation at Spreetail. Comfortable across languages and clouds (Go, Python, Java, Terraform, GCP, AWS), he pairs hands-on engineering with Scrum leadership and CI/CD discipline. An active contributor to the Pants build system, he has improved Python tool integrations and added Google Cloud Function support to streamline builds. Outside of work he hones rapid decision-making as a longtime sports referee and former martial-arts instructor—skills he brings to high-stakes, collaborative engineering environments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Nebraska at OmahaBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
English
Github Skills (11)
dependency-management10
build-system10
google-cloud-functions10
python10
gcp9
google-cloud-platform9
build-tools8
pyenv8
automation-testing7
automations7
automation7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pantsbuild/pants
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
The Pants Build System
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Pants build system by addressing Python-related configurations and integrations. They fixed issues related to environment variable lookups for tools like pyenv and asdf. Furthermore, the user added features, such as support for Google Cloud Functions, and enhanced dependency inference by including additional Google Cloud libraries. These changes indicate a focus on improving build process functionality and expanding the system's capabilities.
pythonprotobufaws-lambdapantsshell
williamscs/HydraPrint
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:41 commits, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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