Cory Christopher
Principal Cloud Engineer
Stansbury Park,Utah
Summary
Cloud Architect and Engineer with 10 years of experience who is passionate about bringing strong collaboration through great culture and technical solutions. Looking to create stable and scalable infrastructure with configuration management, continuous integration, and cloud technologies.
Overview
4
4
years of post-secondary education
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Cloud Engineer
Finicity, A Mastercard Company
Salt Lake City, UT
03.2021 - Current
- Designed cloud strategy and architecture. Responsible for all Cloud Infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters across multiple data centers and regions.
- Managed project intake and planning.
- Partnered with DevOps teams on evaluation and feasibility assessments of new systems and technologies.
- Worked with InfoSec/Compliance to help ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems.
- Utilized code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques to design, plan and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems.
Principal Cloud Engineer
O.C. Tanner
Salt Lake City, UT
12.2020 - 03.2021
- Worked with product and platform owners to identify opportunities for efficiency in given toolsets.
- Managed team KPIs, mentoring, and up-skilling.
- Migrated on-prem workloads to cloud native solutions.
Senior Cloud Engineer
O.C. Tanner
Salt Lake City, UT
02.2017 - 12.2020
- Designed and configured monitoring of cloud platform systems.
- Developed and deployed tooling and systems to support engineering efforts.
- Open sourced PaaS system for continuous integration and service brokerage.
Cloud Engineer
O.C. Tanner
Salt Lake City, UT
01.2016 - 02.2017
- Migrated and containerized multiple applications to cloud native environments.
- Implemented Kubernetes as PaaS for application teams.
- Managed AWS resources with automation from VPC and networking to EC2 and RDS instances.
DevOps Engineer
Suncorp Business Services
Sydney, NSW
07.2015 - 01.2016
- Utilized AWS for development and production infrastructure becoming one of the first Australian financial company in the cloud.
Software Engineer
Suncorp
Sydney, NSW
07.2014 - 07.2015
- Lead initiative for new automated contract testing framework as part of API strategy, along with new adaptive environments and structure.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Miami University
Oxford, OH 08.2010 - 05.2014
Lockheed Martin Leadership Institute
Skills
Kubernetes
Linux
Golang
AWS
DevOps
Docker
Network security
Ansible
Terraform
Grafana
Alert and Triage
Git
Work Availability
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Accomplishments
Patent Inventor
System and method for providing restricted access to production files in a code deployment environment
Patent Filed Mar 21, 2017 - US10776081B2
Quote
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
Jim Horning
Timeline
Principal Cloud Engineer
Finicity, A Mastercard Company
03.2021 - Current
Principal Cloud Engineer
O.C. Tanner
12.2020 - 03.2021
Senior Cloud Engineer
O.C. Tanner
02.2017 - 12.2020
Cloud Engineer
O.C. Tanner
01.2016 - 02.2017
DevOps Engineer
Suncorp Business Services
07.2015 - 01.2016
Software Engineer
Suncorp
07.2014 - 07.2015
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Miami University
08.2010 - 05.2014
Lockheed Martin Leadership Institute