Chris Wilson
Software Engineer at Google
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChris Wilson is a seasoned software engineer with seven years of professional experience, currently building scalable backend systems at Google after nearly a decade as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon. He specializes in cloud-native tooling and DevOps automation, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like GoogleCloudPlatform/java-docs-samples (notably improving DLP Java samples) and Istio (enhancing GKE deployment scripts and build/test workflows). Based in Bellevue, WA, he brings a pragmatic focus on robustness—standardizing exception handling, tuning sampling configurations, and hardening build pipelines. Chris combines deep academic training (BS/MS in Computer Science from BYU) with hands-on production experience delivering secure, maintainable systems for large-scale cloud environments.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
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Github Skills (36)
kubernetes10
docker10
scripting10
testing10
dockers10
cicd10
gcp10
script10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
shell10
cloud-infrastructure9
pubsub9
infrastructure9
javas8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
istio/istio
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 85 commits, 89 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the Istio deployment and build processes within the repository. Their contributions included modifications to shell scripts related to GKE cluster creation, ensuring proper configuration settings. They also updated build scripts, specifically ensuring correct file permissions are set before Docker build steps. Furthermore, the user added an integ test for the analysis timeout behavior.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
GoogleCloudPlatform/java-docs-samples
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Java and Kotlin Code samples used on cloud.google.com
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 21 PRs, 20 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Java samples within the repository. Their work involved fixing bugs related to the DLP readmes, improving code examples, and adding new samples for features like omitting email addresses and custom detectors. They also focused on standardizing exception handling, and adjusting sampling configurations.
appenginevisionkotlintranslateautoml
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