Kristopher Arnott
DevOps Engineer at Convergence Networks
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Summary
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SeniorKristopher Arnott is a DevOps engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building internal tools and managing systems across organizations, currently based in Winnipeg. He specializes in automating remote systems management, monitoring and alerting, and implementing self-healing remediation for production environments to minimize user disruption. Kristopher has delivered end-to-end integrations and deployment solutions—spanning quoting, ticketing, billing, and virtualization—often creating custom connectors where native integrations didn’t exist. His background includes heavy work with monitoring platforms, patch management, containerized services, and ITIL-driven service desks, plus practical exposure to SCOM at scale from his Microsoft tenure. An active back-end contributor to the tgstation SS13 project, he brings a pragmatic developer’s eye to operational problems, having modified core game logic and mechanics in a well-known open-source community. He’s particularly adept at turning large operational datasets into actionable insights to preempt incidents and streamline business workflows.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (10)
ss10
dreamfactory10
gstat10
station10
gameplay10
beyond-compare10
videogames10
playing9
role-manager9
space8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tgstation/tgstation
Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
The /tg/station branch of SS13.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 reviews, 162 commits, 134 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Kristopher primarily contributed to back-end game logic within the TGStation project, fixing bugs related to temperature damage for dead mobs and modifying reagent behaviors. They implemented changes impacting core game mechanics, such as preventing flavor compounding in food reagents and enabling item anchoring for machinery. The user also addressed AI behavior in regards to monkeys, modifying their item handling.
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nightred/tgstation
Sep 2019 - Apr 2020
the /tg/station branch of SS13
Contributions:165 pushes, 54 branches in 7 months
stationss13
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