Christopher Webber
Director, Engineering at Intellistack
Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Webber is a Director of Engineering with 13 years of experience leading SRE, platform engineering, and DevOps teams to build resilient, production-ready systems. He has progressed from hands-on Linux/HPC sysadmin roles to managing multi-team SRE functions at companies like Tenable and Open Raven and now leads engineering at Intellistack. Christopher blends infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes, and CI/CD best practices with a strong focus on automated testing and release processes—evident from his open-source contributions to Chef cookbooks and extensive testing work on AWS-related recipes. Based in Lake Elsinore, CA, he pairs people-first management with a penchant for technical documentation and community-facing engineering that improves both developer experience and operational reliability.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration, Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration, Information Systems at California State University, Fresno
Github Skills (26)
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chefspec10
chef-client10
automation10
markdown-it10
aws10
chef-solo10
automations10
serverspec10
documentation10
ruby9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chef-boneyard/chef-client
Jun 2014 - Dec 2014
Development repository for Chef Client cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:55 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to improving the testing and build processes of the Chef Client cookbook. They moved existing tests from Minitest to ChefSpec and Serverspec, demonstrating a focus on automated testing and infrastructure validation. Their work also included setting up and configuring service management for the chef-client using various methods (init, systemd, runit), and updating configurations for Amazon Linux. Furthermore, the user made a release, showing an understanding of the release process.
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sous-chefs/aws
Sep 2014 - Apr 2015
Development repository for the aws cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the AWS cookbook by adding tests and recipes related to various AWS resources. They developed tests for EBS volumes, elastic IPs, Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs), S3 files, and instance monitoring. Furthermore, the user added a recipe for ec2 hints and updated the metadata, including version releases, indicating a focus on both functionality and the project's lifecycle.
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