About

Christopher Markus is a highly skilled Senior Staff Engineer with over 24 years of relevant experience in the field of Cloud Computing, System Architecture, and DevOps. He has delivered 5 successful Cloud Computing projects to date, including 2 AWS, 1 GCP, and 2 OpenShift projects. Christopher is passionate about aligning architectures and teams for all platform types, optimized for business value and developer productivity. He has targeted cycle times and automation across all facets, including Infrastructure As Code, Testing, Deployment, and Observability. Currently working with Wayfair, Christopher is responsible for Site Reliability Engineering, System Architecture - InfraNext, Machine Learning Cloud Infrastructure, and Data Analytics Cloud Infrastructure. He has also worked with his own company, Christopher Markus Software Development, where he provided technical leadership for multiple Scrum development teams on a 2D and 3D Graphics Rendering Platform with a major .com retailer. This included Cloud patterns, DevOps practices, and Microservice communication patterns. Christopher's tech stack includes Infra, Software Engineer, DevOps, Microservices, AWS, SRE, Senior Software Engineer, test, GCP, Java, Docker, Cassandra, and Spring. He is a lifelong learner and is constantly updating his skills and knowledge. Christopher's recent Audible listens include Architects of Intelligence, Who Owns the Future, Snow Crash, and NPC. Overall, Christopher Markus is a highly skilled and experienced engineer who is passionate about Cloud Computing, System Architecture, and DevOps. His expertise in these areas has enabled him to deliver successful projects and provide technical leadership to development teams. Christopher's commitment to ongoing learning and development makes him a valuable asset to any organization.