Summary
Kris Peterson is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 12+ years building resilient infrastructure, cloud networking, and automation at companies including Coinbase, Salesforce, and AT&T. He blends deep IP routing and switching expertise with modern SDN, AWS, and infrastructure-as-code practices, implementing production solutions in Go, Python, Ruby, and Terraform. Kris has moved from hands-on TAC and lab automation roles into designing scalable network and cloud platforms, often bridging networking and software through APIs and microservices. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he brings a systems-engineering background (BS EE) and an MS in Computer Science to complex reliability challenges. Beyond day-to-day SRE work, he has a long history of contributing to open-source projects and gaming emulation code, reflecting a persistent curiosity for low-level systems and large distributed systems integration.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Louisiana at Lafayette