Chris Antenesse
chris@antenesse.net https://chris.antenesse.net
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Infrastructure Software Engineer with expertise in creating reliable, scalable, distributed solutions in environments where availability is key.
WORK
Apple
Senior Software Engineer, November 2018 to present
Created solutions to make Siri understand users better. Built a pipeline and validation tooling that enabled faster and safer delivery of new features and bug fixes.
Socotra
Senior Software Engineer, August 2014 to November 2018
Created a DevOps organization from the start. Built solutions for continuous delivery, internal and customer tools, configuration management, monitoring, logging, and development environments. Created the engineering process for assigning work and enforced an environment of continuous improvement through post mortems after all internal events.
Hightail
Staff Engineer, September 2013 to August 2014
Replaced internal network file system that was unable to keep up with rapid growth. Created a delivery pipeline that enforced quality and consistency. Automated load testing execution. Worked with executive management to help visualize workflow through the company to help identify contention.
Red5 Studios
Senior Software Engineer, March 2012 to August 2012
Created the infrastructure for the first MMORPG in AWS. Created infrastructure solutions for PvP matchmaking, chat, instancing, item storage, and all other aspects of a massive online game.
Blizzard Entertainment
Senior Systems Engineer II, August 2006 to September 2013
Credited with ten Blizzard titles from World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade to Hearthstone. Replaced infrastructure for item and mail storage that crippled gameplay. Built solutions and supported infrastructure for games that had up to fifteen million players.
SPEAKING
Chefconf
Keeping Secrets, A Practical Approach to Managing Secrets, May 2017
Provided patterns for keeping secrets safe in environments that value continuous delivery.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UC4J36WdAI
Event URL: https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/
Slides: https://chris.antenesse.net/chefconf_keeping_secrets.pdf
AMEX Global Automation Day
Keynote Speaker, October 2015
Keynote speaker for the internal automation day conference. Spoke about the transformation to DevOps in terms of tools and culture.
Slides: https://chris.antenesse.net/amex_automation_day.pdf
Formation 8 DevOps Night
Continuous Deployment Demo, September 2015
Demoed a continuous delivery pipeline and strategy for early stage startups.
StartX DevOps Workshop
The Three Ways of DevOps, April 2015
Spoke to early stage startups about a practical approach to automation, configuration management, and continuous delivery.
Slides: https://chris.antenesse.net/startx_devops_presentation.pdf