Ross Karchner
Information Security Continuous Monitoring Lead
Springfield, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Karchner is an experienced DevOps and information security leader with 14 years of hands-on practice building, deploying, operating, and monitoring production applications, now leading Information Security Continuous Monitoring at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He combines deep operational knowledge from early DevOps and CMS migrations with a focus on automating evidence collection and risk reporting to reduce manual work and speed leadership decision-making. Ross has worn many technical hats—from software developer and scrum product owner to senior IT manager—so he bridges engineering, process, and compliance effectively. Based in Springfield, VA, he pairs a pragmatic, automation-first approach with an uncommon hobbyist interest in game development, which fuels creative problem solving and tooling.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Rochester Institute of TechnologyCareer Studies Certificate, Geographic Information Science and Cartography, Career Studies Certificate, Geographic Information Science and Cartography at Northern Virginia Community CollegeCompletion Certificate, Software Architecture, Completion Certificate, Software Architecture at NoFluffJustStuff
Github Skills (200)
python10
terraform10
security10
infrastructure10
orchestration10
schema10
git-history10
django10
docker-compose10
yaml10
guard10
golang10
json10
container10
django-project10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
cfpb/drama-free-django
Feb 2016 - Jul 2019
Deployable artifacts for Django sites
Contributions:125 commits, 17 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 5 months
pythondeployabledjangositesartifacts
cfpb/sheer
Jul 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 163 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years
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