Christopher Lenard
Co-Founder & CEO at Horse Spot
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Lenard is a full-stack software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building cloud-native systems, currently Co-Founder & CEO of Horse Spot in Charleston. He brings deep expertise in the Microsoft stack and .NET Core, and over recent years has specialized in Kubernetes and DevOps, driving migrations of hundreds of microservices to production-grade clusters. At ShipBob and Relativity he architected global Kubernetes platforms, automated CI/CD and image promotion flows, and reduced operational burden through Pulumi, GitHub Actions, and vulnerability scanning. He combines hands-on engineering with team mentorship, having led cross-functional teams to adopt zero-downtime upgrades and faster cluster provisioning. Trained in software engineering (MS) and with a background in molecular biology (BS), he pairs rigorous problem-solving with a practical focus on reliability and security. Notably, he consistently turns monolithic systems into scalable microservices and builds repeatable deployment pipelines that accelerate time-to-value.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Software Engineering at DePaul UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Molecular and Cellular Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS Molecular and Cellular Biology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish, Italian, English
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Github Skills (194)
gcp10
serverless10
repository-pattern10
dotnet10
pulumi10
sdk10
asp-net-core-web-api10
odata10
identity-framework10
csharp10
factory-pattern10
aws10
javascript9
scaffolding9
signing9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
lenardchristopher/ASP.NET-Core-JWT-Token-Authentication
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
A prototype app that accepts a valid username and password, generates a JWT Token, and returns it. The token can be used in a separate API for authorization.
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years
returnsjson-web-tokenjwt-bearer-tokensprototypejwt-token
lenardchristopher/ASP.NET-Core-with-Dapper
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
Exploratory ASP.NET Core Web API using Dapper as an ORM
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 10 months
asp-net-core-web-apiunit-of-workormfactory-patternasp-net
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