Chris Marslender

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States

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Chris Marslender is a seasoned infrastructure and platform leader with 12 years of experience, currently serving as VP of Infrastructure and Ops at Chia Network where he leads developer platform, cloud, and on‑prem teams. He founded Chia Tracker and builds production systems using Go, Python, React, Kafka, Kubernetes, and MySQL with a strong emphasis on automation, CI/CD, version control, and peer review. A hands‑on open‑source contributor, Chris has improved notable projects like 10up’s ElasticPress—making indexing and WP‑CLI operations non‑blocking and reducing memory usage—and enhanced the xanzy go‑gitlab SDK and Chia Docker/build tooling. His work on Chia includes M1/macOS installer and notarization support, reflecting attention to developer UX and cross‑platform builds. Based in the Greater Minneapolis–St. Paul area, he pairs entrepreneurial experience running his own products and agencies with platform‑scale operational rigor to simplify complex distributed systems for end users.

12 years of coding experience

12 years of employment as a software developer

English

Stackoverflow

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3kreached

1answer

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Github Skills (51)

api-rest10

github-ci10

docker10

dockerce10

gitlab-api10

back-end-development10

elasticsearch710

python10

api-design10

scripting10

restful-api10

amazon-elasticsearch10

elasticsearch810

wordpress10

github-actions-workflows10

Programming languages (18)

SmartyJavaC++JinjaRustCMakefileGo

Github contributions (5)

10up/wp-local-docker

Nov 2016 - Apr 2019

****** WP Local Docker V2 is now available - https://github.com/10up/wp-local-docker-v2

Role in this project:

DevOps Engineer

Contributions:77 commits, 45 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years 5 months

Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily involve modifying and improving the setup scripts and configuration for the `wp-local-docker` environment. They made changes to the `setup.bat` and `setup.sh` scripts, refactoring the commands used to configure and install WordPress. They also focused on running WP-CLI commands with the correct user privileges and on modifying the underlying docker container configurations. These changes ensure the proper setup and deployment of a local WordPress development environment.

wordpressdocker

Chia-Network/chia-docker

Sep 2021 - Jan 2023

Role in this project:

DevOps Engineer

Contributions:100 reviews, 28 commits, 119 PRs in 1 year 4 months

Contributions summary:Chris focused on improving the `chia-docker` repository's functionality and maintainability. Their contributions primarily involved modifying the `docker-entrypoint.sh` and `docker-start.sh` scripts, enhancing the Dockerfile, and improving the configuration of the Chia blockchain environment within the Docker containers. Key changes included adding crawler options, setting default configurations, and ensuring proper execution of Chia commands within the Dockerized environment. They also made improvements to the build process, CI/CD pipeline setup and overall operational aspects of the docker image.

chia-blockchainchiadocker

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