Christopher Neill
Customer Reliability Engineer at Astronomer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Neill is a customer reliability engineer with three decades of hands-on infrastructure experience, from supporting dial-up BBS users and Sun/Solaris systems to leading cloud-native migrations and SRE practices in San Francisco. He’s driven large-scale moves from bare metal to AWS and EKS, refactoring monitoring for true observability and converting legacy configuration management into Terraform-based IaC. Known for cutting noise and improving platform resilience, his projects have reduced false alarms by the tens and enabled critical video and messaging platforms to scale during spikes. He blends deep Unix and networking roots with modern Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability toolchains, and brings practical compliance experience (SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA) to product-facing engineering. An understated detail: he started in the era of physical rack wiring and telephony, which informs his pragmatic approach to architecture and incident response. Based in San Francisco, he focuses on automation, mentoring, and keeping both systems and teams sane.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The Cambridge School of WestonHigh School Diploma Computer Science, High School Diploma Computer Science at Shaker Heights High SchoolCleveland State University
perl, bash
Github Skills (42)
docker9
golang9
python8
infrastructure8
ecosystem8
container7
rsyslog7
infrastructure-management7
configuration-management7
iot7
go7
scale7
mongodb7
zeromq7
salt7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
und1sk0/hm-take-home
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
und1sk0/st4t3z
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 days
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