Chris Tsantiris

Sr. Manager, IT Infrastructure

Delivering innovative financial solutions in the cloud

• Develop and implement strategic roadmap for all IT infrastructure aligned with cost reduction, business goals and security and compliance requirements
• Supervise and mentor IT teams and facilitate cross training to eliminate single points of failure for support
• Optimize infrastructure monitoring using Grafana and Splunk to provide real-time telemetry to end users and engineers
• Manage IT budgets for cloud, data centers and vendor relationships
• Ensure proper documentation of all infrastructure assets, deployment strategies and justifications for decisions
• Design and implement new backup and DR strategy on AWS
• Lead infrastructure effort to decommission legacy LMS service and migrate to new LMS solution
• Create new project intake process to streamline requests for IT department using SNOW and Jira
• Document run book for future brand aquisitions by CNG holding company
• Build Web Application Firewall on AWS

Sr. Manager, Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering 

Manufacturing doors and door hardware

• Architect enterprise cloud strategy to lower costs, improve speed of deployments, reduce technical debt and improve support for the business
• Build in-house IaC capabilities using Terraform, Terraform Cloud, Hashicorp Vault and Azure DevOps to allow for automated deployments and zero trust secret management
• Set up monitoring solution using Grafana, Azure Monitor, and Solarwinds for real time alerting of outages
• Implement MLOps including Machine learning cost optimizations and CICD to automate model retaining to improve Machine learning outcomes for the business
• Lead cloud migration effort from secondary data center to Azure in order to decommission the site as a major cost saving measure
• Ensure CIS cloud security standards are met for compliance and risk mitigation
• Configure IaC code scans and infrastructure scans with wiz.io for improved cloud security

Director of Engineering

Soma Global is a multi-million dollar, industry leading cloud provider serving first responders.

• Built CICD solution using terraform and bitbucket for improved delivery speed and build consistency
• Architected flagship public safety solution that helped the company gain dozens of clients
• Managed multiple teams across areas resulting in improved communication and less mistakes
• Improved application and cloud security to safeguard sensitive data and prevent breaches
• Single handedly ensured SOC2 and FTR compliance enabling the company to earn new contracts
• Ensured all data was CJIS security compliant and FIPS encrypted meeting public safety standards (NIST)
• Monitored cloud environments with Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, Pingdom and Vanta for outages
• Coordinated release management process to cut down on production issues impacting live clients
• Lead purple team for pentest remediation ensuring application vulnerabilities were closed down
• Created automated testing framework using Cypress, Jest and Go Test reducing outages by half

Senior Software Engineer

• Lead engineering effort in Golang and React to deliver critical feature on time to clients
• Containerized services using Docker improving scalability and resilience
• Conducted code reviews of change sets in order to ensure quality code was released each sprint
• Coached and mentored junior developers to grow the team internally eliminating the need to hire
• Developed requirements with product owners making sure that each feature was rolled out smoothly
• Single handedly shipped critical features to close a $30 million contract for the business

Manager / Senior Developer

PwC is the second largest professional services network in the world and is considered part of the “Big 4”.

• Lead development of several applications across multiple teams working in MEAN stack
• Architected in-house machine learning solution to parse contracts and flag issues for legal and compliance reducing PwC's liability exposure
• Migrated on-prem Docker swarms to AKS taking advantage of kubernetes for scalability and availability
• Managed integrations with third party vendor products saving the business both time and money
• Piloted custom in-house CICD framework built on Azure DevOps standardizing deployments firm-wide
• Configured automated code scans using Sonarqube helping catch bugs as part of PR gates

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