Summary
Christopher Barnes is a DevOps-focused software engineer and founder with 10 years of experience building reliable backend systems, automation pipelines, and production support processes. He has driven measurable improvements—accelerating deployments by up to 75%, cutting downtime 80%, and reducing post-release errors 30%—across finance and startup environments. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, he has led small teams, managed SCRUM delivery, and kept mission-critical services at 100% uptime while scaling to thousands of daily users. Based in Bonney Lake, WA, he combines hands-on infrastructure work (Terraform, AWS EKS, Kubernetes) with application support expertise in regulatory environments. As founder of RapportVerse and a background in product management, he brings an operator’s mindset to turning prototypes into resilient production services.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Science - Data Science & Backend Web Development/DevOps, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Science - Data Science & Backend Web Development/DevOps at Dominican University of California
Associate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at Pierce College at Puyallup
High School Diploma Computer Science, High School Diploma Computer Science at Graham Kapowsin High School
Irish, Spanish