Christopher Galtenberg
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Galtenberg is a seasoned software engineering manager and architect with 11+ years building observability-driven cloud and infrastructure platforms across finance, healthcare, payments, and social networks. He combines hands-on system design and full-stack experience with a proven track record of delivering strategic, long-lived systems and creating new senior leaders—recognized by multiple Outstanding Technical Achievement awards and IBM’s Breakthrough in Technical Eminence. At IBM he led large-scale observability platforms ingesting petabytes per year, improved MTTX through operational KPIs, and drove dashboards-as-code and open-source Grafana-as-a-service initiatives; he now brings that agentic transformation focus to NVIDIA. Christopher is known for making systems easy to diagnose, cost-conscious, and transparent to decision makers, and for being the natural team voice whether architect, manager, or product owner. He blends security and compliance rigor (SOC2/FedRAMP/GDPR/NIST) with practical automation—Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD—to keep large distributed systems resilient. Based in Seattle, he’s frequently selected by peers for senior technical roles and is on a path toward Distinguished Engineer–level impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Software Engineering, BS, Software Engineering at Oregon Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (137)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
galtenberg/tweets
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
galtenberg/productplan-cg
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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