_{📷 Caprock Canyon, Quitaque, TX}

I'm Chris Krough, ckrough on the socials.

🔧 Engineering Leader shaping organizations, development workflows, and platform architectures
🐾 Animal Friend fostering, training, and walking rescue dogs (and tending to cats)
☕ Fueled by optimizing complex systems (people or tech) and the occasional mass migration

Some things I've done:

• Refactored engineering platforms to improve developer experience, reliability, and security.
• Migrated hundreds of services across half a dozen cloud environments with zero downtime
• Scaled a platform through >6,000% revenue growth and $3B in transactions
• Built telemetry across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters on multiple continents

Career

• RBCx: Led platform through acquisitions; 100s of services migrated, >99.999% uptime
• OJO Labs: Scaled platform through 6,700% revenue growth and $3B in transactions
• Amazon: AWS Labs, EKS beta tester; automated 150+ K8s clusters over three continents
• uStudio: Transformed engineering org into full-stack devops culture
• Bazaarvoice: 50K req/sec, 30B monthly pageviews; datacenter-to-cloud migration
• Rackspace: Global network ops across 10 data centers, 1M+ metrics/sec
• University of Pennsylvania: Veterinary medical systems; built data center, ran networks

Workflow: Agentic Development · Agent Skills · Context Engineering
AI/ML: RAG Systems · LangChain · Prompt Engineering · Deep Learning
Languages: Python · Go · Bash
Platforms: Kubernetes · Docker · AWS
Domains: Developer Experience · Platform Engineering · Reliability · Security

🚀 Drover: AI application for knowledge classification and organization
🔍 Retriever: RAG-powered Q&A system for organizational documents with source citations
🛠️ Workspaces: Utilities for parallel agentic development using worktrees and venvs.
🤖 Team of Rivals: Strategic decisions via Claude AI Skills
🧹 AWS Glacier Cleaner: Because deleting Glacier vaults shouldn't be painful

📚 Working through the Deep Learning Specialization (Andrew Ng) learning neural nets, CNNs, sequence models, Transformers. Building AI apps with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and LangChain.

Contributions from my Amazon days:

• AWS Service Operator Kubernetes CRDs for AWS
• AWS VPN Controller K8s controller for VPN management
• AWS EKS Cluster Controller Multi-cluster EKS management

🐕 Volunteering with Friends of Homeless Animals dog rescue & adoption
🔭 Former telescope wrangler at the Austin Astronomical Society
📷 Outdoor and nature photography

🟢 AI Transformation Consulting -> Helping small businesses without tech teams adopt agentic AI solutions. I interview stakeholders, assess workflows, build custom tools, and provide ongoing hosting and vendor support. From "we use spreadsheets" to "AI handles that now."
🔵 Fractional Engineering Leadership -> Part-time platform engineering, infrastructure, and security leadership for growing teams. I've scaled platforms through 6,000% growth; I can help you build the foundation for yours.

💼 LinkedIn · ✉️ dev@krough.org · 🌐 ckrough.github.io

Byeeee! 🤙🏽