Chris Tsantiris

Sr. Manager, Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering 

Helping peope walk through walls

• Implement plan to achieve 600k in annual infrastructure cost savings with IaC and right sizing
• Lead cloud migration effort to reduce technical debt, save money, and improve support
• Train existing engineers in DevOps and Agile which improved delivery speed and consistency
• Set up monitoring solution using Grafana and Solarwinds for real time alerting of outages and slowness
• Implement Azure Site Recovery in order to allow business to make an entire data center redundant
• Deploy landing zone and RBAC in Azure which provided structure and IAM security
• Ensure CIS cloud security standards are met for compliance and risk mitigation
• Manage budgets for cloud environments and DevOps team to control costs for the department

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

University of Southern California