Cristoffer Fairweather
Senior Engineer at SSI
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolCristoffer Fairweather is a Senior Engineer based in San Diego with 12 years of software and systems experience and a decade-plus focus on full‑stack, cloud-native platforms. For nearly a decade he has architected and operated a multi-generation, self-hosted platform for Navy R&D—building GitLab infrastructure, self-managed runners that executed millions of CI/CD jobs, and a high-throughput authentication service handling 500k+ monthly transactions under 50ms. He blends platform engineering, DevSecOps, and Linux system administration with hands-on application development and a bias for fixing upstream tool gaps rather than working around them. Cristoffer champions GitOps, observability, and async-first documentation practices, routinely bringing insights from KubeCon and ArgoCon back to production before those patterns are mainstream. He pairs technical depth with mentorship and practical compliance experience from secure government environments, and his background in music hints at a disciplined, collaborative approach to complex systems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Music, Oboe + Voice Concentrations, BA Computer Science, BA Music, Oboe + Voice Concentrations at Point Loma Nazarene University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
nginx8
certificate8
letsencrypt7
docker-image7
proxy7
python7
docker7
whitespace6
filezilla6
openldap6
web2py6
certbot6
dump6
angularjs6
acme6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Annixa/docker-nginx-letsencrypt-proxy
Apr 2016 - Aug 2017
Docker Nginx Proxy with Let's Encrypt simplifies application proxying with Let's Encrypt.
Contributions:2 releases, 30 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 3 months
dockernginxproxy
Annixa/docker-pg_dump
May 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 17 pushes in 7 months
docker-imagedockerupdatedcrondump
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