Christopher Parent
Technical Program Director OCI Cloud Native Application Platform & Architecture
Castle Rock, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Parent is a Technical Program Director and cloud-native architect who blends hands-on engineering with executive leadership to drive large-scale OCI migrations and platform modernization across multi-billion-dollar SaaS portfolios. At Oracle he has led multi-phase programs that replaced third-party tooling, standardized architecture patterns, and realized roughly $40M in annual cost savings while enabling teams to adopt OCI IaaS/PaaS and autonomous databases. He routinely oversees complex portfolios—coaching teams of Technical PMs, defining KPIs, and running architecture review and compliance processes for PCI/HIPAA-sensitive SaaS offerings. A former hands-on SOA/WebLogic architect, he brings practical automation experience (Chef, WLST) and a history of compressing deployment cycles from weeks to days. He contributes to open-source game back-end development on the well-known space-station-14 project, applying his systems mindset to gameplay mechanics like health and item interactions. Based in Castle Rock, CO, he pairs an MS in Systems Engineering and a CS BS with a talent for turning strategic vision into measurable operational and financial outcomes.
3 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Systems Engineering, MS, Systems Engineering at Penn State UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
space-wizards/space-station-14
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
A multiplayer game about paranoia and chaos on a space station. Remake of the cult-classic Space Station 13.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 5 commits, 114 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributes to the game's server-side logic, focusing on core gameplay systems and mechanics. Their commits reflect significant work on the bloodstream system, including implementing blood loss, damage, and healing mechanics. They also worked on code related to zombies, syringes, and health analyzers, suggesting a strong focus on game features and item interactions.
chaosgamespace-station-14rpgc-sharp
QuietlyWhisper/CM-14
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
CM14 is a remake of CM13, Space Station 13, that runs on Robust Toolbox.
Contributions:452 pushes, 368 branches in 1 year 5 months
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