Christopher Najewicz (@chiefy)
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About
Ever since my discovery of BASIC programming and a 300bps modem on Apple ][e as a kid, I have been passionate about technology and computers. Currently seeking engaging and challenging Platform or Infrastructure role.
Experience
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Shutterfly shutterfly.com
Apr 2023 to Present ⋅ Remote
As a member of the Cloud Platform team, I helped manage and support over 20 of Shutterfly and Snapfish's consumer and b2b facing AWS accounts.
- Curated and managed best-practices in AWS organization accounts using SCPs, tagging standards etc.
- Managed "golden" AMI CI/CD for Amazon Linux, RHEL and Ubuntu
- Helped teams migrate and optimize legacy EC2 workloads to ECS
- Assisted release engineering during migration of services to enable deployment to multiple AWS account rollouts prototyping Jenkins pipeline code changes
- Part of on-call rotation, assisted and investigated during live incidents and load tests.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Parsley Health parsleyhealth.com
Aug 2021 to Apr 2023 ⋅ New York, NY (Remote)
Parsley Health uses a holistic approach to medicine to get the full picture of your health and prescribe a plan for long-term healing. Joined as a member of a small team managing cloud infrastructure, security and devops culture within Parsley's engineering team.
- Assisted and mentored teams deploying services and websites to GKE and AppEngine
- Imported and managed existing Google Cloud and Datadog infrastructure resources with Terraform Cloud and Spacelift CI/CD
- Reduced repeated code in Github Workflows using composite actions, making maintenance and changes exponentially quicker for consumers
- Researched and developed Tilt development environments utilizing short-lived Google Cloud infrastructure and GKE clusters
- Helped troubleshoot live issues during incidents
- Created CI/CD developer preview websites behind Google Identity Aware Proxy (IAP) and hosted on Google Cloud Storage buckets (GCS)
Senior Platform Engineer
Lifion by ADP lifion.adp.com
May 2019 to Jul 2021 ⋅ New York, NY
As part of the reliability organization, I worked on a team of 5+ engineers helping to maintain and enhance Lifion's cloud offerings in AWS.
- Responsible for AWS EKS upgrades in 4+ separate environments
- Maintained and reviewed all Terraform code for provisioning resources in AWS
- Helped troubleshoot local development issues with Go and JavaScript microservice teams
- Assisted SRE team with DataDog setup and observability
Senior DevOps Engineer
nearForm nearform.com
Apr 2016 to May 2019
"Helping Companies Succeed With NodeJS"
- Worked as F/T contractor on Lifion's infrastructure team, supported large microservice-based SaaS product
- 90+ microservices deployed via Jenkins to Docker UCP/Swarm nodes in AWS
- Introduced Terraform to streamline standup of environments in AWS, promoted IaC
- Worked with Data Engineering team to test, deploy and troubleshoot Couchbase/Kafka/Redis/Mongo/Cassandra clusters
- Remote employee
Senior Software Engineer
MadGlory Interactive madglory.com
Jan 2014 to Mar 2016
"We Specialize in Building Legendary Game Platforms"
- Co-developer on OverDog XBox One application / XBox ADK
- Maintained high-traffic, legacy Symfony PHP application for large gaming company
- Developed ruby-based wrapper CD system for Docker micro-service based auth system in AWS
- Expert level of AWS EC2, Terraform, Docker, docker-compose required
- Performed code-reviews for teammates
- Contributed to open source projects on GitHub
- Contributed to client's internal Python-based AWS CD tooling project
Senior Software Engineer
Apprenda apprenda.com
Jan 2013 to Jan 2014
"Apprenda is a PaaS software layer that works with your existing applications and infrastructure, while providing a future proof foundation for digital business growth.."
- Continued development on Apprenda's web-based UI written in AngularJS
- Provided legacy support for older jQuery/Knockout based UI
- Problem solved various Windows-related NodeJS issues
- Created Chef recipe for configuring and deploying Apprenda's Linux container
- Worked closely with QA engineers and wrote integration tests to run in legacy browsers such as IE8
Applications Engineer
CarmaLink carmalink.com
Jan 2011 to Jan 2012
"The first vehicle management system designed for small businesses."
- Provided developer support for clients using the CarmaLink API
- Authored NodeJS proxy API implementing OAuth1 2-legged auth to Carma's backend API
- Iterated on PHP-based website application which later became SaaS product, utilized AngularJS for frontend
Skills
Terraform ⋅ Expert
Ansible ⋅ Advanced
Kubernetes ⋅ Intermediate
Amazon Web Services ⋅ Advanced
Google Cloud Platform ⋅ Intermediate
Docker/Containers ⋅ Advanced
Linode ⋅ Intermediate
Jenkins CI ⋅ Advanced
Github Workflows ⋅ Intermediate
Bash ⋅ Advanced
Go ⋅ Intermediate
JavaScript ⋅ Intermediate
Python ⋅ Beginner
Ruby ⋅ Beginner
Projects
linodego
Go client for Linode REST v4 API
ShellGoMakefile
vaulted
nodejs based wrapper for HashiCorp's Vault HTTP API
JavaScriptHCLMakefileShell
slashmovie-go
movie lookup for Slack
MakefileGo
docker-mediawiki
A working docker-compose orchestration of PHP7-fpm / nginx / mysql and mediawiki
DockerfileMakefileShell
github-composite-actions
Utility composite actions for Github Workflows
Shell
dockerfiles
My own personal dockerfiles
DockerfileShell
Education
SUNY Buffalo
Bachelor, Media Studies
Sep 1997 to Jun 1999
University of Maryland
Transfer, Computer Science
Sep 1995 to Jun 1997
Awards
SUNY Media Studies Senior Award
SUNY Buffalo Department of Media Studies
Jun 1999
Awarded to outstanding digital work
Interests