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Christian Parker

@christianparker

Senior Platform Engineer at Gap Inc. who cut deployment cycles by 40% and automated platform operations with Python and Bash.

United States

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At Gap Inc., I own Terraform-based platform standards across multiple environments, reducing setup time by 30%. I also optimized Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipelines, making deployment cycles 40% faster.

Previously, at HashiCorp, I architected AWS deployment pipelines for more than 25 microservices and built Prometheus and Grafana observability for production services. At Thrasio, I migrated legacy applications to Docker and built CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment time by 35%.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Platform Engineer

Current

Gap Inc.

Jul 2024 - Present (2 years 3 months)

Owned Platform Engineering standards for Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code, reducing environment setup time by 30% and improving deployment consistency. Drove CI/CD optimization and automated workflows, saving 15 engineering hours per month.

Terraform Infrastructure as Code CI CD Jenkins GitHub Actions Python BASH Datadog Kubernetes Docker AWS

Senior DevOps Engineer

HashiCorp

Aug 2020 - Jun 2024 (3 years 10 months)

Architected AWS deployment pipelines for 25+ microservices using EKS and Kubernetes, and built Prometheus and Grafana observability for 30+ services. Led on-call response and optimized cloud resource utilization, reducing costs by 20%.

AWS Amazon EKS Kubernetes Linux Prometheus Grafana Terraform CI CD Incident Response Cloud Security

DevOps Engineer

Thrasio

Jun 2018 - Jun 2020 (2 years)

Migrated 15+ legacy applications to Docker containers and built CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment time by 35%. Implemented an AWS CloudWatch incident-response framework with post-incident reviews and root cause analysis.

Docker CI CD AWS Cloudwatch Incident Response Root Cause Analysis