Christian Haumesser, Technologist // Software Engineer I partner with business and product leaders to manifest great ideas in software, coaching engineering teams to build class-defining products of social and economic value that are reliable, scalable, and fit to purpose. Personal Strengths - Emotional Intelligence - Growth Mindset and Change Management - Collaboration, Team-Building, and Mentorship - Complex Reasoning and Information Synthesis - Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Persuasive Writing, Presenting and Communicating Ideas - Optimizing Developer Experience - Technical Breadth and Commitment to Excellence Summary of Qualifications - Software Development & Operations: 10+ Years - Coaching, Mentorship and Management: 10+ Years - Agile Methodologies: 10+ Years - Business/Technology Strategy: 8 Years - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): 8 Years - Cloud Architecture and Development: 7 Years Languages and Technologies - GNU/Linux - Agile / SDLC - CI/CD - Google Cloud (GCP) - Python - Amazon Web Svcs (AWS) - Docker - Go - Kubernetes / GKE - SQL (MySQL/Postgres) - Terraform / IaC - JavaScript/TypeScript - Google BigQuery - React - Java - Cassandra Professional Certifications - Professional Cloud Architect (Google) - Certified Engineer #E02C50C4 (Saltstack) Contact - https://cv.wryfi.net/contact - https://linkedin.com/in/chrishaumesser   Please visit https://cv.wryfi.net for the most current information, or to download in a different file format. Experience Director of Software Engineering, UrbanFootprint, 2022-09-19 – 2023-09-30 As Director of Software Engineering, I led full stack engineering teams to deliver B2C, B2B, and internal software products, and … - coached software teams to expand business impact by improving code, design, collaboration, and planning skills - designed systems, architectures, projects, and SDLC to align development with enterprise/product strategy - created leveling frameworks, staffing plans, and career development protocols to evaluate and expand talent - solicited and evaluated engineering proposals for cost and business impact to optimize sequencing and efficiency - expanded opportunities for collaboration, especially with data science/AI team, to effectively leverage talent - reviewed Typescript, Python, Go, Terraform code, assuming final ownership for quality, design, and operations - formulated company and team goals with metrics and feedback loops to align cross-functional delivery - provided strategic guidance to leadership, influencing product, finance, customer success, and company culture - contributed to SOC-II compliance, designing systems and architectures to meet customer data privacy expectations Staff Software Engineer (Cloud), UrbanFootprint, 2022-07-01 – 2022-09-18 As Staff Software Engineer (Cloud), I automated multi-cloud infrastructure in AWS and GCP using Terraform and Go, and … - authored engineering proposals advocating for SRE practices to improve reliability and efficiency - improved Git operations by standardizing branching strategies, reducing developer overhead and toil - developed and improved CI/CD processes to accelerate delivery and reduce toil (GitHub Actions & Jenkins) - led migration of self-hosted AirFlow DAGs to GCP Cloud Composer, improving operational agility and reducing costs - wrote Go tool to automate blue/green deploys with Cloud Run and Terraform Cloud to improve delivery confidence - created, maintained, and managed IaC assets in Terraform for version-controlled, repeatable infrastructure ops - improved multi-cloud ops (AWS/GCP), reducing overhead by standardizing tooling and planning for consolidation Director, Platform & Engineering, Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2020-09-14 – 2021-08-15 As Director, Platform & Engineering, I aligned and streamlined technology operations to support PLOS’s business and cultural objectives with world-class software and systems, and … - directed a team of 25 and multi-million dollar budget, unifying enterprise technology operations for the first time - coached managers and engineers to expand business impact by improving technical, collaboration, and planning skills - completed cloud migration, eliminating data center and reducing overhead, delivering 50%+ annual savings - streamlined operations for 25% leaner teams to focus on business logic and innovation while maintaining continuity - evaluated build/buy/partner decisions and negotiated contracts, further reducing overhead and expenses - balanced feature development with internal/technical initiatives to continuously deliver stakeholder value - formulated company and team goals with metrics and feedback loops to align cross-functional delivery - created strategic staffing, training, and execution plans to identify capability gaps and revitalize teams - designed systems, architectures, projects, and SDLC to align development with enterprise/product strategy - popularized distributed work policies and practices with other teams to improve enterprise pandemic continuity Senior Engineering Manager, Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2019-09-02 – 2020-09-13 As Senior Engineering Manager, I consolidated disparate DevOps and software teams under common leadership and matrixed agile squads, initiated a comprehensive cloud migration, and … - refined requirements, compiled estimates, and coordinated priorities with product managers to build great features - mentored engineers via code reviews, Git insights, and constructive feedback to expand business impact - guided team through business model and staffing transformations, maintaining continuity and productivity - transformed team morale and productivity by providing a framework for defining values and engineering practices - coached squads through process optimizations and transformational projects for faster, more efficient delivery - proposed and designed “move-and-improve” cloud migration to GCP/GKE to reduce overhead and costs - prototyped Kubernetes manifests, Terraform states, GitLab CI/CD pipelines to demonstrate feasibility of migration - led “unconference” of hackathons, demos, workshops to validate cloud strategy and align engineering team - persuaded leadership to adopt cloud migration proposal by quantifying savings and planning for continuity - expanded and improved distributed workforce policies and practices to ensure continuity during COVID pandemic Reliability Engineering Manager, Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2018-12-17 – 2019-08-31 As Reliability Engineering Manager, I served as chief architect for configuration management, infrastructure automation, and developer tools, accountable for global operations reliability, and … - aligned development and operations by coordinating cadences, release schedules, and sharing between teams - introduced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to optimize reliability and reduce toil - led standardization and automation efforts across development and operations to improve operational efficiency - expanded the team’s business impact by recruiting, mentoring engineers through code reviews, peering, and training - experimented with cloud services (AWS, GCP) and IaC tools (CDK, Pulumi, Terraform) to prepare for the future - quantified and modeled costs of hardware and software platforms to lay groundwork for cloud computing Senior DevOps Engineer, Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2015-06-01 – 2018-12-14 As Senior DevOps Engineer, I was hired to bring modern DevOps practices to PLOS’s bespoke datacenter environment, and … - implemented configuration and lifecycle management for bare metal environment using Saltstack and Python - contributed to modernizing infrastructure to run on Nutanix/VMWare with Hashicorp Consul and Vault - created tools in Python and Go for automating infrastructure, managing environments, and integrating with CI/CD - advocated for adoption of DevOps practices, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud computing - planned and executed deployments of complex distributed systems and highly available applications - integrated observability and telemetry tools (Prometheus, Kibana, NewRelic, PagerDuty, etc.) Director of DevOps, Lucid Design Group (now Atrius), 2009-12 – 2014-10 As Director of DevOps, I functioned as chief architect for DevOps and infrastructure tools and manager of the DevOps team, with responsibility for the global delivery and architecture of rapidly-growing BuildingOS platform. Systems Administrator, Kapor Enterprises, Inc., 2003-12 – 2006-07 As Systems Administrator, I managed gnu/linux and windows systems for Open Source Applications Foundation, Level Playing Field Institute, Mozilla, and other Kapor associated nonprofits. Volunteer Activities Director Emeritus, IO Coöperative, 2015-12 – present As Director Emeritus, I advise active board members on technology, policy, and governance matters. Co-Founder, Board Chair & Secretary, IO Coöperative, 2012-08 – 2015-12 As Co-Founder, Board Chair & Secretary, I co-founded, bootstrapped, and led a consumer technology coöperative, and … - motivated community leaders and members to formalize activities as a corporation - led business strategy, startup, and incorporation activities - chaired board meetings, managed business agenda, kept corporate records, prepared annual reports - engaged legal counsel to successfully avoid baseless DMCA-related lawsuit Education Juris Doctor, Santa Clara University, 2006-08 – 2009-05 - Articles Editor, Santa Clara Law Review - Certificate in Public Interest Law - Broadband Institute of California, Northern California Innocence Project Bachelor of Science, Public Affairs, Indiana University, 1999-08 – 2002-08 - Washington Leadership Program, class of 2001