Christopher Markieta
DevOps Engineer at SAP
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolChristopher Markieta is a DevOps engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and hardening cloud-native infrastructure, currently focused on platform security at SAP after leading cloud security and Anthos/VMware migrations at VerticalScope and Arctiq. He specializes in Kubernetes, GitOps, IaC (Terraform/Ansible), and network policy/hardening—practical expertise that spans policy enforcement (OPA Gatekeeper, Pod Security Standards), multi-cluster secrets, and secure SSO/IAP integrations. Christopher has a track record of turning complex compliance and incident-response requirements into automated, repeatable processes, including OS patch management, CIS Controls roadmapping, and mitigating cryptojacking at scale. A former educator and long-time open-source advocate, he combines teaching experience with deep systems administration roots from bare-metal to managed cloud services. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a pragmatic, security-first mindset to platform engineering and a demonstrated ability to shepherd organizations through large cloud transformations.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario College Advanced Diploma, Computer Programming and Analysis, Ontario College Advanced Diploma, Computer Programming and Analysis at Seneca PolytechnicElectrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
English, Japanese, Polish, Sign languages, Spanish, Chinese, Korean
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (174)
gatekeeper10
continuous-delivery10
validation10
pipeline10
continuous-deployment10
cicd10
mutation10
docker10
devops10
kustomize9
jsonnet9
helm9
conftest9
controller9
security9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Markieta/linux-post-install
Mar 2017 - Jan 2024
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
Markieta/markieta.github.io
Aug 2016 - Dec 2021
Portfolio website powering http://markieta.com/
Contributions:7 PRs, 136 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 5 months
react
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