Christopher Rhodes
Engineer at ConductorOne
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolChristopher Rhodes is an experienced engineer with 11+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems across networking, security, observability, and infrastructure automation. He’s delivered reliability and performance improvements at companies from Rackspace and GoDaddy to Okta and is currently helping secure cloud infrastructure at ConductorOne while continuing long-term volunteer infrastructure work with the Apache Foundation. A hands-on systems architect and troubleshooter, he excels at rescuing stubborn production issues and advising teams building distributed applications from scratch. Based in Des Moines, he prefers remote collaboration with close time zones and brings an uncommon blend of deep infrastructure practice, open-source stewardship, and a genuine interest in grassroots community and nonprofit tech work. He’s also an avid cyclist — a small personal detail that underscores his methodical, endurance-oriented approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
English
Github Skills (24)
alarm8
watchdog7
plugin7
nginx-module6
fabric6
elk5
pdf5
anomaly-detection5
visualization4
scheduler4
elastic4
jwt3
nginx3
c-library3
elasticsearch3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arreyder/scripts
May 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
ScaleFT/libxjwt
Dec 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 months
jwtsjwtvalidationc-library
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