Christopher Black
Technical Architect at Slingshot Aerospace
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.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Houston Christian UniversityHasso Plattner InstituteHouston Christian University - Archie W. Dunham College of Business
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (37)
asciidoc10
circleci10
circleci-orb10
consul10
antora10
vault10
microservices10
documentation10
command-line-tool9
cli8
continuous-integration8
terraform8
devops7
jsonresume7
continuous-delivery7
Programming languages (12)
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
vagrant
aedifex/GOSST
Jun 2020 - May 2026
GOSST (Pronounced "ghost") is a simple web-server written in Golang to illustrate core concepts releated to web technologies, DevOps, and CI/CD. And for science.
Contributions:6 PRs, 203 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 11 months
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