Christopher Dunkin
Senior Cloud Engineer at Delinea
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Dunkin is a Senior Cloud Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience and a strong track record leading DevOps teams to deliver scalable, secure cloud platforms across Azure, AWS, and GCP. He excels in automation, CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform), containerization (Kubernetes/Helm), and building developer self-service platforms that accelerate delivery. As a former DevOps Engineering Manager, he’s combined technical ownership with people leadership—recruiting and mentoring engineers, running one-on-ones, and instituting incident management and observability with Grafana Cloud. Christopher has repeatedly improved security posture and cost/performance tradeoffs for Azure-based SaaS, integrating tools like Snyk, Terraform Cloud, and third-party APIs into production workflows. Based in Des Moines, he brings practical cross-stack skills from networking and virtualization through to Python API work (FastAPI) and automation frameworks, enabling him to bridge developer experience and operational reliability. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, repeatable solutions that turn manual toil into scalable automation.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Arts Management Information Systems at University of Northern Iowa
Github Skills (11)
nagios9
nagios-xi8
terraform-provider6
cloudamqp6
terraform6
exec5
azure-authentication5
rabbitmq5
authentication4
azure2
kubernetes2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
devopsdunkin/terraform-provider-nagios
May 2019 - Apr 2020
Terraform provider for Nagios XI
Contributions:5 releases, 36 commits, 49 PRs in 11 months
terraform-providernagiosproviderterraformnagios-xi
devopsdunkin/Docker-NagiosXI
Oct 2019 - Nov 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 1 month
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