Christian Elsen
Senior Manager - Networking And Infrastructure Security Specialist Solution Architects at TAK.NZ
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Elsen is a seasoned networking and infrastructure security leader with 12+ years of experience designing datacenter networks, IPv6 transitions, SDN, virtualization and hybrid cloud solutions, currently leading Specialist Solution Architects at AWS. He blends deep hands-on engineering from roles at Cisco, VMware and Cloudflare with strategic advisory and technical project management to convert high-level strategy into operational savings and resilient architectures. Known as a lateral thinker and trusted advisor, he excels at simplifying complex problems and aligning network-centric enterprise services with business outcomes. Based in San Francisco, he has progressed from software engineering and product roles to senior leadership at AWS while also founding TAK.NZ, reflecting an entrepreneurial streak alongside cloud-scale expertise.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Engineering, MSc Computer Engineering at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
Github Skills (140)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
AS213151/as213151.github.io
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Build a Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line.
Contributions:168 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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chriselsen/Alexa_TheGiants
Aug 2016 - Jun 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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