Christopher Hines
Senior System Engineer at VigiLanz
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Hines is a Senior System Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting and securing Windows and Linux infrastructures across enterprise and education sectors. He specializes in identity and access management, Active Directory/Azure AD, cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), and virtualization (VMware, VMC, Hyper-V), with a strong focus on applying CIS and NIST security controls. At institutions like Illinois Institute of Technology and Chicago Public Schools he moved from Tier 3 troubleshooting to engineering campus-wide infrastructure and automating monitoring and reporting workflows. Known for practical problem-solving, he blends deep systems knowledge with a background in audio/AV and field installations—bringing uncommon operational empathy to complex deployments. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he’s currently advancing system reliability and security at VigiLanz while pursuing continuous learning in cyber forensics and cloud security.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Information Technology, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, BS in Information Technology, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at IADT ChicagoAssociate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Audio Recording, Audio Recording, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Audio Recording, Audio Recording at Full Sail UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Cyber Security and Forensics, Master of Science - MS, Cyber Security and Forensics at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (36)
azure-cli10
api-client9
continuous-testing9
deploying9
continuous-integration9
sdk9
api9
cli9
azure9
rest-api8
k8s8
rest8
generator8
web-application7
get-started7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Marcus-Hines/k8s-deploy
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
GitHub Action for deploying to Kubernetes clusters
Contributions:1 release, 291 PRs, 372 pushes in 3 months
deployingclusterskubernetes-clusterskuberneteskubernetes-to
Marcus-Hines/workflow-dummy
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:75 pushes in 1 month
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