Christopher Horrell
Fractional DevOps Leader DevOps Consultant Principal DevOps Engineer at Horrell DevOps Consulting
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolChristopher Horrell is a seasoned DevOps leader with 15 years’ experience and a decade-plus specializing in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and cost optimization for Series A–C companies. He combines hands-on engineering—contributions to the official Node.js Docker image automation and testing—with fractional leadership that stabilizes systems, accelerates releases, and cuts AWS spend 30–50%. Comfortable shifting between Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes and container tooling, he focuses on long-term developer experience and reliability rather than firefighting. Christopher’s background spans platform roles at Nylas, Joyent, and Nymi where he delivered measurable build-time and cost improvements and introduced practices like manifest-based Docker images and automated image QA. Based in Toronto, he’s sought for engagements that modernize pipelines and embed sustainable DevOps culture across growing engineering teams.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Diploma Certificate Technical Communications (Technical Writing), Post-Diploma Certificate Technical Communications (Technical Writing) at Seneca PolytechnicBsc. Psychology & English, Bsc. Psychology & English at University of TorontoToronto Metropolitan University
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Github Skills (16)
sh10
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script10
automations10
docker10
bash10
shell10
dockers10
scripting10
cicd10
dockerfile10
testing9
docker-image9
nodejs9
githubaction-workflow7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nodejs/docker-node
Jan 2015 - Mar 2022
Official Docker Image for Node.js :whale: :turtle: :rocket:
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:277 commits, 352 PRs, 269 pushes in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the automation and improvement of the Node.js Docker image build process. Their work included updating build scripts, modifying the `update.sh` and `generate-stackbrew-library.sh` files to accommodate new Node.js versions, and enhancing the testing framework with the BATS testing framework. These changes focused on automating image builds, integrating new Node.js versions, and enhancing the testing process for building Docker images, making the build process more efficient and reliable.
dockerfiledocker-nodedocker-imagenode-jsdocker
chorrell/docker-node
May 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 215 pushes, 167 branches in 2 years 3 months
docker-imagenode-jsdockernodejsnode
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