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• Hybrid/Onsite must be really desperate given how pushy I've seen recruiters for said positions. You could also, I don't know, reconsider your hiring…

  Hybrid/Onsite must be really desperate given how pushy I've seen recruiters for said positions. You could also, I don't know, reconsider your hiring…

  Posted byChris White

• Shout out to Verizon's customer service (or lack there of) who has managed to pull off the impossible task of making me raise my voice during a…

  Shout out to Verizon's customer service (or lack there of) who has managed to pull off the impossible task of making me raise my voice during a…

  Posted byChris White

• This feels like something out of an Onion articlehttps://lnkd.in/gwtHHpW9

  This feels like something out of an Onion articlehttps://lnkd.in/gwtHHpW9

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• LFS250: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Essentials

  The Linux Foundation

  IssuedApr 2023

  See credential

• Certified SAFe® 5 DevOps Practitioner

  Scaled Agile, Inc.

  IssuedJun 2023 ExpiresJun 2024

  See credential

• Dog Program Volunteer

  Austin Pets Alive!

  Sep 2018 - Present6 years 11 months

  Animal Welfare

  Currently handling dog walking of certified dogs for my skill level. Also, I plan to take on fundraising activities for crucial supplies.

• cwprogram.com

  Dec 2016 - Present

  My professional site displaying information about my IT experience.
  
  * Infrastructure is two static nginx nodes behind a loadbalancer
  * Web nodes secured via iptables
  * All infra is automated via Ansible
  * Runs on Gentoo Linux
  * HTML 5 page served statically via nginx with gzip compression
  
  Github
  
  * Ansible Playbooks ( https://github.com/cwgem/cwprogram-playbooks )
  * Site Source ( https://github.com/cwgem/cwprogram.com )

  See project

• Gentoo Catalyst Grsecurity EC2 Build

  Jan 2013 - Present

  Using Gentoo Catalyst to make an EC2 ready image that utilizes Grsecurity protections and RBAC management.

  See project

• Ruby AWS Console

  Jan 2013 - Present

  This project is meant to be a proof of concept for using irb to create work flow specific shells. The primary inspiration for this was the Rails Console, a console for rails oriented work flows. In the case the work flow I set to create a console for was that of Amazon AWS. To provide an API interface to AWS, the Ruby AWS SDK was utilized. This console was developed for my specific work flow, creating a proxy to the rather large and complicated API. I just focus on what I need to for common… Show more

  This project is meant to be a proof of concept for using irb to create work flow specific shells. The primary inspiration for this was the Rails Console, a console for rails oriented work flows. In the case the work flow I set to create a console for was that of Amazon AWS. To provide an API interface to AWS, the Ruby AWS SDK was utilized. This console was developed for my specific work flow, creating a proxy to the rather large and complicated API. I just focus on what I need to for common tasks, and add features as I require them. This makes it very flexible. Show less

  See project

• English

  Native or bilingual proficiency

• Japanese

  Limited working proficiency

• Diego Elio Pettenò

  “Chris is one of the major reasons why I joined Gentoo, he was a model for me, as he took care of packages he had little to no use for, just because users needed them. He was always available even just to bounce ideas around and to refine them.”

• Stephen Klimaszewski

  “Chris' work as a Developer for Gentoo has been extremely helpful, both on the side as a developer who has talked to him extensively, bringing fresh ideas or outlooks to conversations, as well as an end user who has used the guides that he has written.”

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• As someone who has worked with security for a while, I feel like the greatest enemy is the people who decide password requirements.

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• When life gives you lemons you become terrified that lemons just appeared out of thin air.

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• We live in a society where playing any kind of really loud music out of your car is considered being a nuisance while this ice cream truck man over…

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• You'd think after years of people furiously pressing 0 on their phone to get an operator that businesses would kind of clue in that maybe people…

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• A company who decides to force return to office yet has an all hands meeting about important company decisions where the Q&A session gets skipped due…

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• I saw a post recently about the replacement of junior developers with AI. The problem is that there's a fundamental flaw with that. AI works off of…

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• Lately I feel like people requesting networking components in AWS is like some kind of overdone Starbucks order."Yes I'd like a Venti sized VPC…

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• I can't wait for businesses to go all in on customer support AI bots so I can make millions off offering actual human being support as a white glove…

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