Kris Dockery
Senior Software Engineer II at Dutchie
Town of Camillus, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKris Dockery is a Senior Software Engineer II with nine years of deep cloud-native and reliability engineering experience, currently shaping infrastructure-as-code and platform automation at Dutchie using Python, Pulumi, Kubernetes and AWS. He has a strong track record leading Customer Reliability Engineering at Astronomer and VMware/Heptio, helping enterprises validate and operate production Kubernetes at scale while driving CI/CD, observability, and on-call excellence. Kris’s background spans hands-on Linux and OpenStack operations through leadership roles at IBM and Rackspace, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems troubleshooting and modern platform engineering. He’s particularly skilled at turning operational pain points into automated, testable infrastructure—often using IaC and GitOps patterns like ArgoCD—to reduce toil and improve reliability. Based in Camillus, NY, he brings pragmatic leadership to platform projects and a consistent focus on production readiness and scalable automation.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Floresville High School
Github Skills (135)
python10
gcp10
argocd10
scheduling10
automation10
k8s10
mesos10
kustomize10
continuous-delivery10
scheduler10
pulumi10
helm10
jsonnet10
pipeline10
continuous-deployment10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
krisdock/kubernetes
Jul 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 6 months
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
krisdock/kubernetes-yaml-examples
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 17 pushes in 5 days
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