Kris Runzer
Principal SRE at AlayaCare
Central Saanich, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKris Runzer is a Principal SRE based in Central Saanich, BC with 11 years of experience architecting and operating resilient, production-grade systems. Currently leading SRE efforts at AlayaCare and running an incorporated consulting practice, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic architecture from startup to scale. His background spans senior development and tech lead roles across healthcare and networking domains, where he’s driven authentication, routing and reliability improvements. An active back-end contributor to open-source (notably implementing core auth flows in the volatiletech/authboss project), he brings practical security-minded coding experience to infrastructure work. Holding a BCS with a business minor, Kris pairs technical depth with commercial insight to deliver dependable, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor of Computing Science, Minor in Business Management, Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor of Computing Science, Minor in Business Management at Thompson Rivers University
Spanish
Github Skills (7)
user-authentication10
authentication10
go10
back-end-development10
http9
templating8
bcrypt7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
volatiletech/authboss
Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
The boss of http auth.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 commits, 55 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kris primarily worked on implementing the authentication module for the project. Their contributions involved redefining the configuration and core structure of the authentication system. Code changes focused on the creation of `auth.go`, `auth_test.go`, and `config.go` files which included creating routes for login and logout and implementing the `loginHandler` and `logoutHandler` functions. The user also incorporated styling and email templates.
authenticationbossauthhttp-auth
AlayaCare/aws-cudos-framework-deployment
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Command Line Interface tool for Cloud Intelligence Dashboards deployment
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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