Chris Hirsch
Senior Lead DevOps Engineer at KiaTek LLC
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Hirsch is a seasoned DevOps engineering leader with 22+ years of experience delivering real-time and soft real-time systems, dedicated to scalable architectures and simple design. As Senior Lead DevOps Engineer at Velocity Global and owner of KiaTek LLC, he merges hands-on craftsmanship with strategic platform leadership, emphasizing automated testing, seamless deployments, and robust telemetry. He has steered architectural delivery at Wayfair, Trace3, and other firms, championing DevOps practices across CI/CD, configuration management, and container orchestration with Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, and Terraform. A polyglot developer fluent in C++, Java, Python, Go, and PHP, he leverages instrumentation, metrics, and dashboards to surface performance insights and drive data-driven decisions. Based in Aurora, Colorado, he values continuous learning, collaboration, and fostering a culture of excellence and fun.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Colorado State University
Github Skills (49)
health10
synthetic10
monitoring9
sensors9
pods9
operator8
bluetooth8
kubernetes-operator8
kubernetes8
custom-component7
nodejs7
google-home7
storage7
robot7
vagrant7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Raptacon/Robot-2024
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
Crescendo
Contributions:3 releases, 39 reviews, 16 PRs in 1 year 3 months
ChrisHirsch/kuberhealthy-storage-check
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
A storage check for the kuberhealthy project
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 38 commits in 2 years 1 month
kubernetesvagrantstoragekuberhealthy
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