Christopher Proto
Senior Software Engineer at Etsy
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Proto is a Senior Software Engineer and seasoned DevOps practitioner with 14 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently shaping platform tooling at Etsy. He’s an AWS- and Google Cloud-certified engineer who has led DevOps and SRE transformations—scaling deployments, instituting CI/CD, and cutting AWS spend—across organizations from startups to NBCUniversal. As founder of DevOps Gorilla he delivered consulting and hands-on cloud migrations, and as DevOps Manager at Craftsy he rebuilt delivery pipelines to enable up to 40 production releases per week. Christopher blends infrastructure automation with operational governance, having designed on-call, change management, and incident response practices that supported global teams. Based in Charlottesville, VA, he pairs engineering depth in cloud platforms with a background in computer engineering and practical experience in product-facing operations. A detail that often surprises colleagues: he moved between hands-on engineering and strategic ops leadership repeatedly, demonstrating both builder instincts and policy-level impact.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Villanova UniversityThe University of Melbourne
English
Github Skills (132)
skaffold10
pgp10
terraform10
gcp10
security10
infrastructure10
google-cloud10
aws-serverless10
terraform-module10
gcloud10
terraform-cloud10
hashicorp10
secrets10
serverless-applications10
golang10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
chroto/quickstart-redhat-openshift
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
AWS Quick Start Team
Contributions:1 PR, 41 pushes, 13 branches in 9 months
aws-lambdaquick-startaws
chroto/aws-network-visualizer
Jun 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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