Christopher Umbel
Sr. Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Zscaler
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Umbel is a Sr. Principal Site Reliability Engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience and two decades in technology leadership, currently driving reliability at Zscaler from Pittsburgh. He blends SRE, cybersecurity, AI, and data science expertise—skills honed through CTO/CISO stints and transformation leadership roles at Ravana and VMware—so he can both architect resilient systems and lead incident response. Christopher has modernized business-critical legacy applications, overseen acquisitions, and led .NET app transformation programs, demonstrating a rare mix of executive strategy and deep technical execution. Currently pursuing a master's in Artificial Intelligence, he pairs continued academic rigor with practical security-first SRE practices. An operator at heart, he still codes and prototypes, running skunkworks projects early in his career that continue to influence his pragmatic approach to innovation.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Artificial Intelligence (In-Progress), Master's degree Artificial Intelligence (In-Progress) at Penn State UniversityUniversity of North Dakota
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Github Skills (84)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microservices-aspnetcore/teamservice
May 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:149 commits, 135 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
chrisumbel/running-calc
Jun 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches, 1 tag in 5 years 1 month
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