Summary
Christopher 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 University
The University of Melbourne
English