Scott Christopherson
Developer at Mondoo
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolScott Christopherson is a seasoned developer with 14 years of experience building and stabilizing infrastructure and automation tooling, currently driving engineering work at Mondoo from Atlanta. He spent seven years at Chef Software contributing to the widely used Chef Infra project, where he tackled tricky Windows permission edge cases and improved why-run behavior for file and directory providers. His background blends hands-on DevOps engineering with product-focused development across startups and freelance work, giving him a practical, systems-oriented approach to solving operational problems. Educated in computer science and multimedia web design, he pairs backend automation expertise with an eye for user-facing details. Comfortable in cross-platform environments, he often focuses on reliability and subtle platform-specific bugs that improve long-term maintainability.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Georgia State UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at Art Institute of Atlanta
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Github Skills (24)
windows10
ruby10
chef-client10
automation10
chef-solo10
automations10
user-permissions9
permission9
filepermissions9
devops9
cgm9
infrastructure8
deploying8
testing7
html6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to improving the stability and functionality of the Chef infrastructure automation platform. Their work involved addressing file permission issues in the `chef-solo` tool on Windows, modifying code to handle SYSTEM user permissions and updating the Chef version. They also focused on preventing modifications of new resources in why-run mode for file and directory providers.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
zmanring-zz/chrome-ext-delicious
Mar 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:58 commits in 2 months
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