About

Chris Crownhart is a highly experienced Cloud Architect with over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. With a broad range of skills, Chris has designed and implemented architecture for both private and public cloud solutions, including experience with both AWS and Azure environments. He has also designed server automation solutions with VMware and ServiceNow and created DevOps solutions for OpenStack with Chef and Jenkins. Chris has extensive experience in developing applications on Linux and Solaris with Python, Perl, C, Java, PHP, and PL/I. He has worked with databases including DB2, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Chris has experience in Azure Public Cloud and AWS Public Cloud Architecture and Implementation, Azure Stack Architecture, Private Cloud Architecture and Implementation, VMware vSphere, ServiceNow (API & Cloud Management Integration), HPE Cloud Service Automation (CSA), HPE Operations Orchestration (OO), and OpenStack API Development - Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, LBaaS. Furthermore, Chris has experience in RabbitMQ/Memcached/Celery, Custom REST API development with Django REST Framework, Chef - Cookbook/Recipe development, CI/CD – Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, Eucalyptus 4.2 Cloud Deploy, Content Management Solutions (CMS) with Zope/Plone, and Django. He has also worked on Zope/Plone Custom Development, Zope/Plone Hosting, Zope/Plone Migration from 2.x and 3.x to the latest 4.x, Database Design and Development with PostgreSQL and MySQL, and JQuery Integration. Chris has worked with IBM mainframe systems using PL/I and DB2. He is currently working as a Cloud Architect at Unisys and has previously worked at DXC Technology as a Cloud Architect and at Core Software Group as President. Chris holds a BSS degree in Computer Science, Economics, and Business from Cornell College. Chris is a senior software engineer with relevant experience of 33.88 years. He has a strong tech stack that includes AWS, Azure, PHP, MySQL, Jenkins, DevOps, Integration, Python, Django, and Java. Chris is a highly skilled and experienced professional who has a proven track record of designing and implementing successful cloud solutions.