Christopher Black
Senior Platform Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Black is a Senior Platform Engineer based in San Francisco with three decades in the tech industry and a decade of focused hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms, DevOps, and enterprise applications. He has moved between startups and large enterprises—recent roles include platform and Kubernetes leadership at Parry Labs, Venus Aerospace, and NASA's Johnson Space Center—bringing both operational rigor and product-driven engineering. His background spans SAP and B2B systems through to MLOps and SRE, giving him a rare full-lifecycle perspective from legacy enterprise stacks to modern containerized ML deployments. Known for translating complex operational requirements into repeatable platform patterns, he excels at bridging developer productivity and production reliability. Christopher’s career shows a pattern of short, high-impact engagements where he rapidly establishes platform capabilities, suggesting a talent for quick technical wins in mission-critical environments. He combines practical, system-level craftsmanship with a strategic view of how platforms accelerate engineering velocity.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Houston Christian UniversityHouston Christian University - Archie W. Dunham College of BusinessHasso Plattner Institute
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (58)
kubernetes10
container10
integrate10
api-blueprint10
hashicorp10
circleci10
circleci-orb10
integrations10
redoc10
consul10
api-documentation10
scale10
workload10
jekyll10
vault10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aedifex/nomad-vagrant-cluster
Mar 2017 - Jun 2021
Provision a Nomad cluster using Vagrant
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
vagrantansiblenomadprovisionnomad-cluster
aedifex/cdk8s
Mar 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:144 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 11 months
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