Christopher Cox
Sr. DevOps Engineer at The Endless Now
Frisco, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Cox is a Senior DevOps Engineer and Unix/Linux subject-matter expert with over 35 years of experience and a BS in Computer Science from Texas A&M. He blends deep systems-level programming (assembler, C/C++, shell, Python, Ruby and more) with practical infrastructure skills—backup, SAN, virtualization, CI, Puppet/Ansible, Jenkins and monitoring—to run and integrate heterogeneous Windows and Unix/Linux environments. As a longtime consultant, adjunct professor and former president of the North Texas Linux Users Group, he pairs teaching and community leadership with hands-on engineering. He contributes to notable open-source projects like netdata, where he developed and refined a Python Samba monitoring plugin to expose SMB2 metrics in production dashboards. Known for solving cross-platform single sign-on and legacy-to-modern OS integration challenges, he focuses on pragmatic, maintainable solutions that scale. He frames his work around service to others and continuous knowledge-sharing.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (10)
monitoring10
devops10
python10
samba10
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
bash8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
netdata/netdata
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
Architected for speed. Automated for easy. Monitoring and troubleshooting, transformed!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 37 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the development of a Python-based monitoring plugin for Samba within the netdata repository. Their initial work involved creating a plugin to gather performance metrics for SMB2 operations using the smbstatus tool. Subsequent commits focused on refining the plugin, improving its functionality, and adapting it to align with the project's existing dashboard infrastructure. This included refactoring and optimizing code.
observabilitynotificationsgrafanaprometheusdashboard
ntlug/netdata
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
Get control of your servers. Simple. Effective. Awesome. https://my-netdata.io/
Contributions:16 pushes in 1 year 2 months
netdatadedicated-servereffectivezonesserver
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