Summary
Christopher Dunkin is a results-driven cloud engineering leader with nearly a decade of experience delivering scalable DevOps and cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and GCP. As a Senior Cloud Engineer at Delinea, he leads initiatives to strengthen CI/CD, IaC, and secure cloud platforms, while mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction. His track record spans designing and deploying PaaS/SaaS/IaaS on Azure, building robust CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, and driving security, reliability, and cost optimization for hybrid environments. In leadership roles, he has guided DevOps teams, established incident management frameworks, implemented monitoring with Grafana Cloud, and championed recruitment and professional development. Early in his career he built deep on-prem and cloud competencies at Hy-Vee, Kum & Go, and TMG, focusing on virtualization, Exchange deployments, and backup architectures. Based in Des Moines, Iowa, he combines hands-on automation with people leadership to help teams deliver reliable, secure systems at scale.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Arts, Management Information Systems at University of Northern Iowa