About Me

Sup nerd, my name is Chris Walker. I am a Linux Automation / DevOps Engineer, with over 20 years of IT experience, and 10 years of DevOps/Automation experience.

Check out some things Ive worked on

Industries I've worked in

Aerospace
Virtual Reality
Point of Sale Systems
M&E targeted Mass Storage
Web Hosting / Datacenter

Skillset

Disciplines (Click to Expand)

DevOps + Automation

DevOps in Hardware-tied niches

CI/CD, Reusable, Repeatable build processes
Virtualization, Cloud, Containerization
On-Prem, Hybrid and, Cloud, management, design, Implementation
Technology Design and Implementation
Process and Workflow Design, Discovery, Documentation, Implementation
Standards Implementation and Education
Disaster Recovery Process Design and Implementation
Enterprise and Internal Support
PII Handling/Sanitizing (CC Info, etc), PCI, HIPAA, SOC, General Security and Prevention
Identity and Access Management

Tools (Click to Expand)

Automation (Click to Expand)

Ansible
Terraform
Puppet
Chef
SaltStack
Scripts

Virtualization (Click to Expand)

Docker
LXC
VMware
Proxmox
Qemu
KVM

Cloud (Click to Expand)

AWS
GCP
Azure

Packaging (Click to Expand)

Imaging (ISO, Cloud, etc)
DEB
NPM
RPM
Packer
make, scripts

Operating Systems (Click to Expand)

If its linux, I can work on it

Programming (Click to Expand)

Python
Bash
Ruby
regex

Personal projects in:

Python
C
C#
JS
Ruby
Perl

Hardware (Click to Expand)

network gear
large datastorage
virtualization platforms

Misc. (Click to Expand)

IAM
CMS Systems
CRMs
Monitoring Solutions
Log Aggregators
Caching
Queuing
Load Balancing