Christian Saide
Principal Engineer at Wunderkind
Charleston, South Carolina Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Saide is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance backend systems and resilient DevOps platforms, currently leading architecture and delivery at Wunderkind. He is fluent in Golang, Python, Ruby, and Node.js, and has a strong track record designing scalable infrastructure across Docker, ESXi/vSphere, Azure, and AWS. Christian has repeatedly driven zero-downtime migrations, automated CI/CD pipelines, and large-scale telemetry deployments—experience born from roles where he built global distributed systems and DDOS mitigations. He combines deep systems-level knowledge (Linux, Windows Server, container OS) with hands-on engineering leadership, moving from individual contributor to principal roles within the same company. Notably, he has architected clustered video transcoding and multi-region infrastructures supporting hundreds of VMs, highlighting a practical knack for marrying performance with operational durability. Based in Charleston, SC, he brings a pragmatic, experiment-driven approach to solving complex production problems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, General studies, High School Diploma, General studies at Saint Andrews SchoolBE in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, BE in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics at Stevens Institute of Technology
Spanish, English
Github Skills (200)
python10
lastpass10
terraform10
automation10
ssh10
ansible10
golang10
graph10
docker10
wan10
devops10
ecosystem9
terraform-cloud9
stomp9
calculator9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
supernomad/chunky
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:10 releases, 145 commits, 12 PRs in 1 month
socketsocket-ioexpressjsleveragingjavascript
supernomad/quantum
May 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:28 releases, 434 commits, 175 PRs in 1 year 9 months
definednetworkingencryptedsoftware-defined-networknetwork
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