Summary
Christopher Steel is an IT consultant and systems administrator with nine years of focused experience building secure, automated, cross-platform infrastructure and workstation fleets for research labs, startups, NGOs and enterprise clients. Based in Montreal, he combines DevOps-style automation (Ansible, orchestration and IaC) with accessibility and usability priorities—having delivered WCAG-compliant CMS solutions as a former CEO and produced dozens of automation projects to manage 70+ researcher workstations and LDAP-integrated environments. His background spans academic neuroinformatics at McGill, digital-signage engineering, and consultancy for organizations such as Cummins, Greenpeace and IBM, giving him a wide practical range from hardware-level deployments to cloud orchestration. Colleagues value his ability to translate user needs into secure, maintainable systems that scale across mixed OS environments. He tends to favor pragmatic automation and granular, per-group configurations that keep complex environments both auditable and pleasant for end users.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
French, English