Principal DevOps Engineer
2018 - 2022Calm.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.
Technologies: Elasticsearch, Security, Amazon Linux, Jenkins, DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Bash, Codefresh, CircleCI, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Go, AWS, CI/CD Pipelines, Node.js, AWS Lambda, AWS IAM, Amazon Cognito, AWS Systems Manager, YAML, JSON, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon DynamoDB, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon API Gateway, Architecture, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Networking, VPN, Jump Servers, Web Security, IT Security, Healthcare IT, Amazon EC2, AWS RDS, GitHub, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS Cloud Architecture, DatadogDirector, 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: Security, Amazon Linux, Jenkins, DevOps, Bash, Linux, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, ECS, AWS Lambda, Go, Python, AWS Fargate, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD Pipelines, Node.js, AWS IAM, Amazon Cognito, AWS Systems Manager, YAML, JSON, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon DynamoDB, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon API Gateway, AWS, Architecture, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Networking, VPN, Jump Servers, Web Security, IT Security, IT Audits, Amazon EC2, AWS RDS, GitHub, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS Cloud Architecture, DatadogTechnical 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: Security, Amazon Linux, Docker, DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Secure Automated Lending Technology (SALT), Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Bash, Go, JavaScript, Python, AWS, AWS Lambda, AWS IAM, YAML, JSON, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon API Gateway, Architecture, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Networking, VPN, Jump Servers, Web Security, IT Security, IT Audits, Amazon EC2, AWS RDS, GitHub, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS Cloud Architecture, DatadogLead 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: Elasticsearch, Security, Amazon Linux, Jenkins, DevOps, Linux, Bash, Spark, Solr, Elassandra, Docker, Kubernetes, Packer, Redshift, Cassandra, Puppet, Secure Automated Lending Technology (SALT), Ansible, Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD Pipelines, Node.js, AWS Lambda, AWS IAM, YAML, JSON, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon API Gateway, AWS, Architecture, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Networking, VPN, Jump Servers, Web Security, IT Security, IT Audits, Amazon EC2, AWS RDS, GitHub, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS Cloud Architecture, DatadogLead 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: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Elasticsearch, Security, Jenkins, Docker, DevOps, Python, Bash, Linux, Terraform, AWS, Secure Automated Lending Technology (SALT), Ansible, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS Lambda, AWS IAM, YAML, JSON, Architecture, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Networking, VPN, Jump Servers, Web Security, IT Security, IT Audits, Amazon EC2, AWS RDS, GitHub, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS Cloud Architecture, DatadogLinux 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: Security, NGINX, MySQL, Apache, Linux, Python, Bash, Ansible, YAML, JSON, AWS, Architecture, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Networking, VPN, Jump Servers, Web Security, Amazon EC2, AWS RDS, GitHub, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS Cloud Architecture, DatadogCloud 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: Security, Bash, Linux, Chef, Secure Automated Lending Technology (SALT), Puppet, Packer, Ansible, Terraform, AWS IAM, YAML, JSON, AWS, Architecture, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Networking, VPN, Jump Servers, Web Security, AWS RDS, GitHub, AWS Cloud Architecture, DatadogPatriot/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: Aerospace & Defense
Christopher J. Stobie
DevOps Engineer and Software Developer in Laguna Beach, CA, United States
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.
Christopher is now available for hire
Portfolio
- Calm.comElasticsearch, Security, Amazon Linux, Jenkins, DevOps...
- VeritoneSecurity, Amazon Linux, Jenkins, DevOps, Bash, Linux, Redis, Elasticsearch...
- Amazon Web ServicesSecurity, Amazon Linux, Docker, DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux...
Experience
- Linux 13 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) 8 years
- Continuous Integration (CI) 6 years
- Jenkins 5 years
- Docker 5 years
- Python 4 years
- Kubernetes 4 years
- Packer 3 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, AWS, Amazon Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, RHEL, Git
The most amazing...
...thing I've designed was a serverless, immediately scalable real-time AI engine processing platform.
Employment
Experience
- Toptal AWS Case Studyhttps://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 Cloudhttps://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 Bloghttps://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.
- Terragithttps://github.com/lanmalkieri/terragit
Automatically tag your Terraform modules using Lambda, AWS, or GitHub.
- Jenkins Pipeline
These are Jenkins Groovy pipelines for building a Docker container, running tests, pushing to ECR, and finally deployment using Terraform.
- Create-IAM-PWhttps://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, YAML, Go, Groovy, JavaScript, JavaTools
Helm, AWS Fargate, Amazon ECS (Amazon Elastic Container Service), AWS CLI, Packer, Jenkins, Terraform, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), VPN, HashiCorp, GitHub, GitLab CI/CD, AWS Systems Manager, Jira, Trello, Git, Ansible, Apache, NGINX, Amazon EKS, CircleCI, Puppet, Chef, Solr, Amazon Cognito, AWS CloudFormationParadigms
Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery (CD), DevOps, Continuous Development (CD), ManagementPlatforms
AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Linux, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, Kubernetes, Amazon EC2, Debian, CentOSStorage
Cassandra, JSON, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Datadog, Elasticsearch, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis, Redshift, MySQL, PostgreSQLIndustry Expertise
IT Security, SecurityOther
AWS, Cloud Architecture, Site Reliability, Quality Assurance (QA), Software Configuration Management (SCM), SDET, Full-stack, SCM Engineer, CI/CD Engineer, QA Testing, Containerization, Infrastructure, CI/CD Pipelines, Architecture, Networking, Jump Servers, Web Security, Cloud Security, AWS RDS, Team Leadership, Agile DevOps, AWS DevOps, IT Project Management, Cloud, IT Audits, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS Cloud Architecture, Secure Automated Lending Technology (SALT), Healthcare IT, ECS, Elassandra, Aerospace & Defense, Codefresh, Federal IT Space, RHEL, Amazon API GatewayFrameworks
SparkLibraries/APIs
Node.js
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.
