Christopher Najewicz

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer 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 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 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

"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

"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 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

"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