Christopher Kotte
Consultant
Dublin, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Kotte is a revenue-focused technology and sales leader with 25+ years of experience building high-performance GTM organizations and scaling enterprise accounts across IT services, cloud, and cybersecurity. As a former CRO who drove structured CRM, forecasting, and QBR discipline, he has led teams responsible for over $200M in annual sales and expanded single-client relationships from $15M to $60M+ in recurring revenue. He combines founder-like urgency with data-informed pipeline management to prioritize high-margin, multi-year service contracts that increase customer stickiness. Technically grounded from hands-on roles in VMware and Linux consulting, he contributes to prominent open-source projects like Ansible—adding VMware check-mode support—and enhances user-facing tooling in GNOME extensions. Based in Dublin, Ohio, Christopher is equally focused on community impact, sponsoring Habitat for Humanity and regional inclusion initiatives. His blend of deep technical empathy and rigorous commercial execution makes him effective at translating complex IT capabilities into predictable, scalable revenue.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Communication Systems Management, BS Communication Systems Management at Ohio UniversityIBM Executive Management Program, IBM Executive Management Program at Harvard Business School
Github Skills (15)
ansible-galaxy10
javascript10
shell-extension10
vmware10
python10
gnome-shell-extensions10
ansible10
devops9
back-end-development9
gtk9
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
dbus8
wayland7
testing7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Aug 2018 - Feb 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:36 commits, 44 PRs, 351 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the Ansible project by adding check mode support to various VMware modules. Their work involved modifying existing modules to include functionality for testing configurations without applying changes. They focused on modules related to VMware host configuration, services, and facts gathering, suggesting expertise in managing VMware environments with Ansible. Additionally, they incorporated improvements to existing modules, such as fixing issues with systemd services and enhancing functionality in VMware datastore facts.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
eonpatapon/gnome-shell-extension-caffeine
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Disable screensaver and auto suspend
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and user experience of a Gnome Shell extension. Their contributions involved modifying the extension's core logic to utilize `Shell.AppSystem` for application state monitoring, replacing the older `Shell.WindowTracker`. They implemented new features for controlling Night Light behavior, including pausing/resuming based on the extension's state, and added corresponding settings in the preferences panel. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to move the notification sending logic into a dedicated function.
suspendscreenshotscreensavergjsgnome
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