Christopher Snapp
Senior Technical Account Manager at Red Hat
Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarChristopher Snapp is a Senior Technical Account Manager at Red Hat with a decade of experience designing and delivering resilient infrastructure and automation solutions across higher education, federal, and military domains. He started as a systems engineer and rose through HPC leadership and solutions architecture roles at Virginia Tech before moving into senior software and DevOps engineering at Progress Chef. Christopher is known for building teams that champion DevOps culture and for solving complex problems under severe resource constraints, often turning operational pain points into automated CI/CD and testing workflows. He has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Chef Infra and Chef Server, improving CI pipelines, test automation, and Terraform-based integration tests that support large-scale infrastructure-as-code practices. Comfortable both managing customer-facing technical relationships and shipping hands-on engineering improvements, he blends strategic account leadership with deep automation expertise. Based in Colorado, he brings a pragmatic, systems-level perspective that consistently exceeds stakeholder expectations.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (30)
bash10
terraform10
cicd10
chef-client10
terraformer10
chef-solo10
devops10
microsoft-azure9
aws9
automation9
chef-infra9
automations9
azure9
powershell9
docker8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef-server
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
Chef Infra Server is a hub for configuration data; storing cookbooks, node policies and metadata of managed nodes.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 138 commits, 69 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on improving the integration testing infrastructure for the Chef Infra Server project. They implemented Terraform scenarios for various test cases, including fresh installs, LDAP integration, and Elasticsearch integration. The user also made improvements to the CI/CD pipeline by adding build steps, and implemented a reaper for orphaned test instances. They also updated and modified existing testing scripts to support testing of specific functionality.
erlangstoringnodesinfrachef-server
chef/chef
Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 57 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on enhancing the CI/CD pipeline and automating infrastructure-related tasks for the Chef Infra project. They implemented and refactored testing pipelines, including those for Windows and Habitat environments. The user also added scripts for nightly cleanup of test resources and integrated new test configurations within the existing CI framework, improving automation and maintainability. Their work directly supports the project's goal of automating infrastructure configuration and management.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
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