Principle DevOps Engineer
2018 - PRESENTCalm- Built and scaled a mobile application to support thousands of requests per second.
- Fully deployed EKS/Kubernetes clusters fully managed by Terraform.
- Wrote numerous Kubernetes template frameworks leveraging Terraform and CodeFresh for full Canary deploys.
- Built a fully managed networking layer using Terraform.
- Built a multi-region multi-account AWS setup with full VPC peering using Aviatrix.
- Helped solve architectural issues and bring the latency into reasonable levels.
- Screened potential DevOps candidates for the company and assisted in building a DevOps culture and team.
Technologies: AWS, GO, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, CircleCI, CodeFreshDirector, Site Reliability Engineering
2017 - 2019Veritone- Designed and implemented an architecture for processing streams of media with AI in real time.
- Designed and implemented a unique autoscaling architecture leveraging Fargate and ECS/EC2.
- Led the efforts resulting in achieving a high FedRAMP compliance status.
- Built an SRE team from nothing to having a global presence in six time zones.
- Led the efforts resulting in a savings of over $800,000 from AWS annually.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Fargate, Python, Go, Lambda, ECS, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis, LinuxTechnical Account Manager (TAM)
2017 - 2017Amazon Web Services- Managed multiple $100+ million accounts at AWS.
- Led architecture design efforts and reviewed all the accounts.
- Led multiple in-depth how-to workshops on automating the infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Packer.
- Built a new internal toolset resulting in immediately an increased resiliency for hundreds of AWS accounts.
- Contributed heavily to the internal software development for multiple tools.
Technologies: AWS, Python, JavaScript, Go, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, SALT, LinuxLead DevOps Engineer
2016 - 2017Clear Capital- Built a DevOps team from nothing to a global presence supporting multiple time zones.
- Led the architectural efforts around a Cassandra/SOLR design and code implementation which resulted in a query performance optimization (going from 10+ seconds to a sub-second query response time).
- Architected the design and implementation of ClearQC/ClearCollateral with customers like Wells Fargo, Freddie Mac, and Goldman Sachs running over $3 trillion through the systems monthly.
- Led a team in the automation of all infrastructure and configuration management which resulted in a highly scalable, self-healing system with tools like SALT, Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Automated our CI/CD processes which resulted in reducing the average build/test time from 30 minutes down to 5 minutes.
- Led the efforts to achieve SOC 2 compliance.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Ansible, SALT, Puppet, Cassandra, Redshift, Packer, Kubernetes, Docker, Elassandra, SOLR, SparkLead DevOps Engineer
2016 - 2016Estech Systems, Inc.- Architected the support for the PBX/SIP servers running on millions of phones worldwide.
- Led the migration efforts from a self-hosted on-premise implementation to a fully managed AWS deployment.
- Wrote numerous Ansible playbooks to optimize automation builds.
- Developed numerous Terraform modules to improve infrastructure automation builds.
- Led the systems team in troubleshooting SIP/PBX service issues for clients around the globe.
Technologies: Ansible, SALT, AWS, Terraform, Linux, Bash, PythonLinux Support Engineer
2015 - 2015Armor Cloud Hosting- Worked on numerous high-profile customer accounts, troubleshooting issues and increasing performance of customers applications.
- Wrote automation scripts for various customers concerning the deployment/installation of application stacks.
- Worked on numerous security response teams for real-time hacker prevention of high profile clients.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Ansible, Bash, Python, Linux, Apache, MySQL, NginxCloud Consultant
2015 - 2015Credera- Wrote Ansible playbooks for Gold's Gym to automate their entire website application stack.
- Redesigned Gold's Gym's website which resulted in load time response increase from five seconds to under a sub-second.
- Wrote Ansible playbooks in order to automate LDAP deployment with Kerberos.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Docker, Puppet, SALT, Chef, LinuxPatriot/THAAD Fire Control
2010 - 2012US Army- Worked on and maintained THAAD missile systems.
- Worked on and maintained Patriot missile systems.
- Deployed Patriot/THAAD radar systems.
- Worked on numerous live fire simulations and real world exercises.
Technologies: THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense), Patriot
Christopher J. Stobie
DevOps Developer in Laguna Beach, CA, United States
Member since July 1, 2018
Chris is a seasoned principal DevOps engineer with several years of experience building and managing applications. Formerly the director of DevOps/SRE at an AI company, Veritone, in Costa Mesa, CA, and a solutions architect at AWS. Chris has led numerous large-scale cloud architecture designs and implementations including building a real-time serverless AI platform on AWS.
Christopher is now available for hire
Portfolio
- CalmAWS, GO, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, CircleCI, CodeFresh
- VeritoneAmazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Fargate, Python, Go...
- Amazon Web ServicesAWS, Python, JavaScript, Go, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, SALT, Linux
Experience
- Linux, 13 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS), 8 years
- Continuous Integration (CI), 6 years
- Jenkins, 5 years
- Docker, 5 years
- Kubernetes, 4 years
- Python, 4 years
- Packer, 3 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Git, RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, Amazon Linux, TFS, AWS
The most amazing...
...thing I've designed was a serverless, immediately scalable real-time AI engine processing platform.
Employment
Experience
- Toptal AWS Case Study (Other amazing things)https://www.toptal.com/client-reviews/calm-and-aws
A case study around how I helped Calm to achieve scalability and reliability on AWS running Kubernetes on EKS at scale.
- Podcast | Screaming in the Cloud (Other amazing things)https://www.screaminginthecloud.com/episodes/episode-26-i-m-not-a-data-scientist-but-i-work-for-an-ai-ml-startup-building-on-serverless-containers
This is a podcast I talk about artificial intelligence (AI), the future of AI, and a serverless Fargate-based architecture that I've designed/implemented.
- AWS Architecture Blog (Other amazing things)https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/building-real-time-ai-with-aws-fargate/
I recently was given the opportunity to write a blog for AWS' architecture blog series on a system design I built.
- Terragit (Development)https://github.com/lanmalkieri/terragit
Automatically tag your Terraform modules using Lambda, AWS, or GitHub.
- Jenkins Pipeline (Development)
These are Jenkins Groovy pipelines for building a Docker container, running tests, pushing to ECR, and finally deployment using Terraform.
- Create-IAM-PW (Development)https://github.com/lanmalkieri/create-iam-pw
A simple Bash script that was designed to send a console password in a secure way to a new IAM user.
Skills
Languages
Bash, Python, Go, Groovy, JavaScript, Java, PerlTools
AWS Fargate, AWS ECS, AWS CLI, Packer, Jenkins, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, SolrParadigms
Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery (CD), DevOps, Continuous Development (CD)Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Linux, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, Kubernetes, Debian, CentOSStorage
Cassandra, Elasticsearch, MySQL, PostgreSQLOther
Site Reliability, Quality Assurance (QA), Software Configuration Management (SCM), SDET, Full-stack, SCM Engineer, CI/CD Engineer, QA Engineer, Secure Automated Lending Technology (SALT), Security, Federal IT Space, RHELFrameworks
Django
Education
- Bachelor of Science degree in Cyber Security2015 - 2017Colorado State University - Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Associate of Science degree in Cyber Security/Digital Forensics2012 - 2013Richland College - Dallas, TX, USA
Certifications
- AWS Solutions Architect ProfessionalJANUARY 2018 - JANUARY 2020Amazon Web Services, Inc.
- AWS DevOps ProfessionalJANUARY 2018 - JANUARY 2020Amazon Web Services, Inc.
- AWS SysOps AssociateNOVEMBER 2017 - NOVEMBER 2019Amazon Web Services, Inc.
- AWS Solutions Architect AssociateOCTOBER 2017 - OCTOBER 2019Amazon Web Services, Inc.
