Christopher Maher
Director Of Platform Engineering
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Maher is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11 years of experience building platform and DevOps capabilities for large consumer and enterprise products, now serving as Director of Platform Engineering in Seattle. He has led cross-functional teams at Twilio and Alaska Airlines to improve developer velocity, migrate massive data sets, and design customer-facing systems like check-in and disruption services used by millions. A hands-on infrastructure engineer and Linux enthusiast, he’s contributed to core Habitat plans that support reproducible packaging and deployment workflows. Christopher blends deep automation expertise (Kubernetes, Helm, Vault, Terraform) with a mentor-first management style, routinely running 1:1s and fostering cross-organizational collaboration. He holds an MS in IT Management and quietly runs initiatives—from open source stewardship to an amateur radio club—that reveal his commitment to community and resilient systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Educational Ministry, Bachelor of Arts Educational Ministry at Seattle Pacific UniversityMaster of Science - MS Information Technology Management, Master of Science - MS Information Technology Management at Colorado State University Global
Github Skills (14)
automation10
automations10
package-management10
vault9
consul9
configuration-management9
shell8
script8
sh8
scripting8
artifactory7
linux6
terraformer3
terraform3
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
habitat-sh/core-plans
May 2017 - Oct 2020
Core Habitat Plan definitions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:173 commits, 132 PRs, 74 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to defining and maintaining the core Habitat plan definitions within the repository. Their work involved updating package versions for tools like Artifactory, Consul, and Vault, as well as managing dependencies and build processes. They also added and modified plans for new software packages like nmap and libtalloc, reflecting a focus on package management and infrastructure configuration. The user's contributions directly support the building and packaging of software for deployment within a Habitat environment.
planhabitatpackage-managerdefinitionspackages
Defilan/dotfiles
Oct 2017 - Apr 2022
Configuration settings for Linux and MacOS systems
Contributions:1 release, 32 commits, 54 PRs in 4 years 6 months
configurationkarabinerlinuxconfigstow
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