I came to infrastructure from the data side

I am an SRE. Based in Rexburg, Idaho.

Chris Roos with his two kids

Bio

I started as a data analyst, building predictive models and web scrapers. Then I was a marketing director, where I used Elasticsearch to analyze competitor sites. I found I would rather build the tool than present the slide about it.

I have done infrastructure full time since 2021, and I have freelanced since 2017. Day to day that means cloud infrastructure as code, delivery pipelines, observability, and incident response. I still measure before I argue. That habit is most of how I work.

Open to work

I'm open to Senior SRE roles. Resume: PDF or DOCX.

What I read

Some of what I believe came from books. I keep a list of the books that changed my thinking, each linked to where the idea shows up here.

The book

Outside of infrastructure, I am writing The Next 50 Years, about what happens when everything we built on growth runs out of people. The second draft is free to read.

The Next 50 Years — second draft, free to read

What happens when everything we built on growth runs out of people.

Getting in touch

I read everything that comes in. The fastest routes are LinkedIn and email.