Chris Polk
Director | Cloud Platform Engineering & Operations
- Role
- Director Platform Engineering at CARIAD, Inc.
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chris Polk
A professional technical leader with over 25 years’ experience with a deep understanding of leading diverse engineering teams and technical programs. Goal oriented, positive, focused, and high-energy self-starter. Experienced in partnering with boards and executive staff on strategic initiatives. Expertise in establishing business requirements and executing technical strategies through effective program planning and delivery. Ability to carefully insert the appropriate company resources, at the right time in solution development and delivery cycles.Proven successes in building teams to define technical solutions to business requirements not readily recognized.
Experience
Director Platform Engineering
Jan 2021 — Present · Redmond, WA, US
Leading teams of software engineers to deliver globally scalable, reliable, and secure Connected Vehicle Platforms for the Volkswagen Group• Created the strategic direction and technical leadership for the DevOps, SRE, and Security teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement• Oversaw the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable and secure cloud platforms hosted on Azure• Initiated and guided the automation initiatives to implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) for efficient and reliable software delivery• Hired, lead and mentored a team of 5 managers and 35 engineers, fostering a culture of learning to facilitate skill development to enhance the competencies for Cloud Platform Engineering
Education
United States Marine Corps
Communications
University of Maryland
Communications
Skills
- Business Process
- Java
- Agile Methodologies
- Microsoft Products
- Management
- C#
- .net
- Software Development
- Scrum
- Cloud Computing
- Distributed Systems
- Scalability
- Software Engineering
- Strategy
- Software as a Service (Saas)
- Xml
- Microsoft Sql Server
- Saas
- Software Design
- Web Services
- Pre-Sales
- Soa
- Solution Architecture
- IT Strategy
- Microsoft Technologies
- Architecture
- Architectures
- Enterprise Software
- Enterprise Architecture
- Integration
- Windows Azure
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