Christer Edwards
Security Engineer at BastilleBSD
Orem, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolChrister Edwards is a security engineer and seasoned open-source developer with 14+ years of hands-on experience building secure, automated systems across Linux and FreeBSD environments. He co-created HubbleStack—adopted as a standard at Adobe—and is the architect and principal maintainer of BastilleBSD, a FreeBSD container automation framework born from a restorative sabbatical. Christer blends practical DevOps and systems programming skills with deep security credentials (Project+, Pentest+, CySA+, Security+, Network+, CCSP) and a B.S. in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance. His contributions to Salt and Salt bootstrap tooling show attention to cross-platform packaging and module-loading nuances, and he’s known for favoring simplicity and auditability in security automation. Based in Orem, Utah, he balances production security engineering at Verisk with ongoing stewardship of open-source projects that improve compliance and infrastructure resilience.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Western Governors UniversityComputer Science / Network Administration, Computer Science / Network Administration at Utah Valley University
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Github Skills (20)
container10
python10
scripting10
freebsd10
configuration-management10
bash10
automation10
script10
saltstack10
sh10
automations10
shell10
devops10
admin9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
BastilleBSD/bastille
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
Bastille is an open-source system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:38 releases, 14 reviews, 467 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Christer primarily focused on improving the automation and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD, the core function of the repository. Their work included significant contributions to bootstrapping, creating, and managing containers through shell scripts. They focused on improving the networking configuration within the containers, including support for virtual networks and interface aliasing. The user's contributions span multiple command updates, configuration adjustments and adding documentation.
containersbastillebastille-templatedevopsdeployment
saltstack/salt-bootstrap
Dec 2012 - May 2020
Generic Salt Bootstrap Script
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 13 comments in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christer primarily focused on improving the Salt Bootstrap script for FreeBSD. Their contributions involved modifying the script to correctly handle package dependencies, including incorporating multi-repo support and updating package installation methods. They updated the script to align with evolving FreeBSD package management and removed hard-coded references to Python 2.
bootstrap-scriptsaltgenericbootstrapsaltstack
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