Christopher J. Stobie
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Software Developer
Laguna Beach, CA, United States
Toptal member since August 2, 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.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Amazon Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, RHEL, Git
The most amazing...
...thing I've designed was a serverless, immediately scalable real-time AI engine processing platform.
Work Experience
Principal DevOps Engineer
Calm.com
- Built and scaled a mobile application to support thousands of requests per second.
- Built a greenfield AWS environment using 100% IaC with Terraform leveraging EKS as our primary orchestration layer.
- Wrote numerous Kubernetes template frameworks leveraging Terraform and Codefresh for full canary deploys.
- Built a fully-managed networking layer using Terraform.
- Built a multi-account, multi-region AWS structure.
- Helped solve architectural issues and bring the latency to reasonable levels.
- Screened potential DevOps candidates for the company and assisted in building a DevOps culture and team.
Director, Site Reliability Engineering
Veritone
- 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.
Technical Account Manager (TAM)
Amazon 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.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Clear 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.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Estech 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.
Linux Support Engineer
Armor 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.
Cloud Consultant
Credera
- 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.
Patriot/THAAD Fire Control
US 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.
Experience
Toptal AWS Case Study
https://www.toptal.com/client-reviews/calm-and-awsPodcast | Screaming in the Cloud
https://www.screaminginthecloud.com/episodes/episode-26-i-m-not-a-data-scientist-but-i-work-for-an-ai-ml-startup-building-on-serverless-containersAWS Architecture Blog
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/building-real-time-ai-with-aws-fargate/Terragit
https://github.com/lanmalkieri/terragitJenkins Pipeline
Create-IAM-PW
https://github.com/lanmalkieri/create-iam-pwEducation
Bachelor of Science Degree in Cyber Security
Colorado State University - Fort Collins, CO, USA
Associate of Science Degree in Cyber Security/Digital Forensics
Richland College - Dallas, TX, USA
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect Professional
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
AWS DevOps Professional
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
AWS SysOps Associate
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js
Tools
Amazon EKS, Helm, AWS Fargate, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS CLI, Packer, Jenkins, Terraform, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), VPN, HashiCorp, GitHub, AWS, Apache, GitLab CI/CD, AWS Systems Manager, Jira, Trello Development, ELK Stack, Git, Ansible, Nginx, CircleCI, Puppet, Chef, Solr, Amazon Cognito, AWS
Languages
Bash, Python, YAML, Go, Groovy, JavaScript, Java
Paradigms
Continuous Integration (CI), Agile Development, Agile Development, DevOps, Continuous Development (CD), Management, DevSecOps, Serverless Architecture
Platforms
AWS Lambda, AWS, Docker, Linux, Ubuntu, Linux, Kubernetes, Amazon EC2, Codefresh, Debian, CentOS
Storage
Cassandra, JSON, Amazon S3, Datadog, Elasticsearch, AWS, Redis, Redshift, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Frameworks
Spark
Other
Cloud Architecture, Site Reliability, QA Testing, Software Configuration Management (SCM), SDETs, Full-stack, SCM Engineer, QA Testing, Containerization, Infrastructure, CI/CD Pipelines, Architecture, Networking, Jump Servers, System Security, Cloud Security, AWS RDS, Team Leadership, Agile DevOps, AWS DevOps, IT Project Management, Cloud Engineering, IT Security, IT Audits, Site Reliability, AWS Cloud, Web Application Firewall (WAF), DNS, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Web Servers, Monitoring, Secure Automated Lending Technology (SALT), Security, Healthcare IT, Network Administration, ECS, Elassandra, Aerospace & Defense, Federal IT Space, RHEL, Amazon API
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