Chris Montgomery
Olympia,WA
Summary
Seeking a fully-remote senior DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering position that requires experience designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting world-class cloud-based solutions. Considering both consulting and full-time opportunities. Motivated, personable technology professional with extensive experience in systems and software design, implementation, operations, and management with a 20+ year track record of cross-team collaboration and complex problem-solving at the enterprise level.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Software Architect, Cloud Operations
Plex Systems, A Rockwell Automation Company
01.2018 - Current
- Designed architecture and implementation strategy for big-data analytics platform using Elastic Search & Kibana, processing over 800GB of new ingest daily while keeping usability and performance high and costs low. Supported system and trained team of engineers.
- Implemented internal secrets-management process using Azure Key Vault, automating key integrations into legacy back-end systems.
Azure DevOps Consultant, Microsoft
Kforce, Inc.
06.2021 - 12.2022
- Evolved existing Azure DevOps continuous integration and deployment automation by improving existing build and release processes.
- Added ARM Template deployments to pipeline, allowing complete deployment of 30+ Azure Function App microservice architecture from empty subscription to fully operational system.
- Supported ongoing corporate compliance requirements, such as automating migration of all public Azure endpoints behind virtual private networks, updating code-signing process, and implementing OneBranch-governed build and release pipelines.
Software Engineering Consultant, Microsoft
Kforce, Inc.
08.2019 - 07.2020
- Assisted Microsoft's Office Engineering team with the design and implementation of Azure API Management backed documentation management system, using both .Net and Node JS functions apps and logic apps.
- Extensively refactored applications and added automated functional and unit tests, bringing automated code coverage up from 40% to 87%.
- Designed DevOps CI/CD pipeline automation for both applications and ARM templates
Enterprise Architect
Novartis Pharmaceutical Corporation
08.2010 - 05.2018
- Designed and implemented enterprise data acquisition, ETL, central job scheduling, and reporting tools. Designed all application tiers, including back-end SQL database, .Net Web API middle tier, Windows service agents, CLI Management utility, and Front-End Angular web application. System-supported data feeds from over 200 data sources in 17 countries.
- Served as Enterprise Architect, reviewing and approving system designs company-wide.
Solutions Architect Avengineer, SuperHeroStuff.com
Arrow Solutions Group
03.2015 - 07.2016
- Migrated complete application workflow (front-end and back-office warehouse tooling) from hosted third-party e-Commerce solution to in-house .Net NopCommerce back-end with custom responsive front-end for a multi-million dollar online superhero-themed merchandise retailer. Decreased monthly hosting costs by nearly 90%, saving over 300K per year in OpEx by re-architecting and migrating applications to Microsoft Azure.
- Designed and implemented tablet-based warehouse inventory management platform, consisting of JWT auth secured front-end using Angular / Typescript UI, .Net Core Web API middle tier, and Entity Framework integration into NopCommerce's back-end repository.
Principal Software Development Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
05.1997 - 08.2010
- Principal Enterprise Escalations Engineer, "Technical Duty Officer," October 2008 to March 2010. Drove high-priority incident and crisis investigations to resolution for over 200 hosted properties, including MSN, HotMail, Passport, Danger, Bing, and Yahoo Search.
- Principal Software Development Engineer, August 2004 to October 2008. Formed and led Microsoft.Com's Sustained Engineering team, managing a remote vendor development and test team in U.S. and Argentina for its first year, serving as vendor manager, development lead, and scrum master.
- Senior Escalations Engineer, "Debugger," January 2001 to August 2004. Assisted in creating Microsoft.com's original “Debugger Team,”; an elite group of escalation engineers. Served as a final escalation point within Microsoft.com for server and application issues, escalating to Windows, IIS, CLR, and SQL product groups and driving problem isolation and resolution on Microsoft.com's behalf.
- Senior Operations Engineering Manager, June 1998 to January 2001. Managed operations engineering teams responsible for web operations of over 80 Microsoft.com Domains, including the following more notable Microsoft.com Websites: Www,, Search, Support, MSDN, TechNet, Windows Update, Download & Windows Media.
- Senior Operations Engineer, May 1997 to June 1998. Pioneered “HTTP Monitor” application at Microsoft.com before it was an industry best practice, which brought visibility to our availability issues on www.microsoft.com and search.microsoft.com.
Computer Programmer, Enlisted Active Duty
United States Air Force
04.1995 - 05.1997
- Supported military and civilian scientists by developing and operating systems to automate and further their research.
- Operated full IT systems for Air Force medical laboratory, including client and server hardware, domain, networking, SQL database, Exchange, etc.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Cloud Computing
Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UTSkills
- HTML / JavaScript / CSS / Angular / TypeScript
- Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana / ETL
- C# / Net Core / AspNet MVC / Web API
- Python / PowerShell
- Entity Framework 5 / 6 / 7 / Core
- TDD / Unit Testing Frameworks
- Azure Web Apps, Function Apps, Logic Apps, APIM
- Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline engineering with ARM Template Design & Integration
- SQL Design & Development
Certification
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
- CompTIA A+
- CompTIA Network+
- CompTIA Security+
- CompTIA Cloud+
- CompTIA IT Operations Specialist
- CompTIA Secure Infrastructure Specialist
- CompTIA Secure Cloud Professional
- CompTIA Cloud Admin Professional
- Elastic Certified Engineer
- Google Cloud Certified Cloud Digital Leader
- Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Developer
- ITIL 4 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
- (ISC)2 Certified Cloud Security Professional
- LPI Linux Essentials
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Timeline
Azure DevOps Consultant, Microsoft
Kforce, Inc.
06.2021 - 12.2022
Software Engineering Consultant, Microsoft
Kforce, Inc.
08.2019 - 07.2020
Software Architect, Cloud Operations
Plex Systems, A Rockwell Automation Company
01.2018 - Current
Solutions Architect Avengineer, SuperHeroStuff.com
Arrow Solutions Group
03.2015 - 07.2016
Enterprise Architect
Novartis Pharmaceutical Corporation
08.2010 - 05.2018
Principal Software Development Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
05.1997 - 08.2010
Computer Programmer, Enlisted Active Duty
United States Air Force
04.1995 - 05.1997
Bachelor of Science - Cloud Computing
Western Governors University
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
- CompTIA A+
- CompTIA Network+
- CompTIA Security+
- CompTIA Cloud+
- CompTIA IT Operations Specialist
- CompTIA Secure Infrastructure Specialist
- CompTIA Secure Cloud Professional
- CompTIA Cloud Admin Professional
- Elastic Certified Engineer
- Google Cloud Certified Cloud Digital Leader
- Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Developer
- ITIL 4 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
- (ISC)2 Certified Cloud Security Professional
- LPI Linux Essentials
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
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