Khris Richardson
Senior Software Engineer at ZeroEyes
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKhris Richardson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland with 11 years focused on bridging platform, infrastructure, and backend engineering at high-stakes inflection points. He has moved between startups and large organizations—most recently ZeroEyes and Tubi—shaping resilient systems as a staff/ senior engineer and platform architect. Khris brings deep SRE and systems architecture experience from roles at LinkedIn, Intel, and Ticketmaster, and repeatedly returns to self-directed contracting work that sharpens his cross-domain problem solving. He contributes to prominent open-source tooling, including kustomize (improving metadata validation, tests, Helm integration and user-mode flags), showing a practical focus on Kubernetes configuration integrity. Known for untangling systemic complexity, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a habit of improving developer workflows and validation pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Loyola AcademyBachelor of Science (B.S.) General Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) General Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignOur Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH)
Github Skills (13)
kustomize10
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
apidoc9
api9
command-line-interface8
cli8
command-line8
testing8
yaml7
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/kustomize
Aug 2018 - Dec 2022
Customization of kubernetes YAML configurations
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Khris contributed to the `kustomize` project by implementing and modifying features related to metadata management. They focused on enhancing annotation and label validation using `apimachinery`. Furthermore, the user worked on test improvements to ensure functionality including adapting tests to incorporate openapi and inference. Additionally, they also worked on extending functionality to allow running as a current user through flags, and integrating with Helm chart inflation.
yamlcuelangkubectlkuberneteskubelet
khrisrichardson/salt-states
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:8 PRs, 41 pushes, 18 comments in 1 year 2 months
saltsalt-states
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