Christopher H.

About Christopher H.

As a Staff Software Engineer II at Kaseya, I plan, create and lead innovative solutions…

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer Ii (Platform and Cloud Infrastructure)

   Kaseya

   Mar 2022 — Present · Irvine, CA, US

   Led teams to architect and manage complex projects integrating spanning multiple environments (AWS & Azure cloud, on-prem Ubuntu & Fedora systems, Kubernetes (k8s) and vSphere).• Created UI/UX and backend software (PHP+Symfony) for the Endpoint Backup for PCs product, now protecting over Windows PCs globally.• Created and deployed software patches and updates across a fleet of over 260 Ubuntu backend servers using SALT.• Responsible for imaging new and re-imaging existing Ubuntu servers over IPMI.• Lead developer for a new IaaS platform to enhance in house productivity tools based on OpenStack, Kubernetes (k8s), Terraform and Helm. • Directly responsible for creating helm charts from old jsonet configs, building gitlab CI/CD runners and pipelines, creating Docker container images (managing them in Harbor), utilizing Ceph Object Store for dependency executables, and maintaining build products/artifacts in Artifactory.• Regularly developed software and resolved bugs related to REST apis, certificate management (creating CSRs and certs utilizing various CAs including Lets Encrypt and internal), logging (Fluentbit, Filebeat, Kafka and Opensearch), SQL and file systems including ZFS.• Collaborated closely with the Product team to develop epics that drove the overall product direction.• Served as the product liaison to the global risk control team. Assessed adherence to SOC2 controls and FIPS 140-2 standards. Wrote FIPS and other compliance statements.• Developed software (PHP/Jscript/Typescript/C++/Python) and managed day-to-day operations to support the globally distributed cloud continuity product line that encompassed Microsoft Azure, AWS EKS, and locally hosted OpenStack resources.• Delivered expertise to other teams in the realms of cloud computing and virtualization, quickly solving OpenStack reliability issues as well as backend networking problems including problems related to HAproxy load balancing algorithms & nginx connection overruns.