Chris Funderburg
Principal Platform Engineer
Newbury, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Funderburg is a Principal Platform Engineer and seasoned DevSecOps practitioner with a 30-year background in infrastructure and over a decade focused on cloud-native platform engineering. He leads platform strategy and hands-on delivery across startups, banks, and consultancies—most recently at Indicium AI and through his own consultancy Cloud Cauldron—designing secure, compliant infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, containers, and CI/CD pipelines. Comfortable in both advisory and implementation roles, he has repeatedly helped organisations achieve ISO and PCI DSS-aligned operations and built automated provisioning frameworks that remove manual toil. A British Texan and environmentalist by training (BSc Hons in Environmental Management and Technology), he brings a pragmatic, systems-level perspective that balances operational robustness with sustainability. Known for blending old-school sysadmin grit with modern cloud architecture, he still enjoys getting hands-on in the tooling and automation that keep large fleets humming.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Honours), Environmental Management and Technology, BSc (Honours), Environmental Management and Technology at The Open UniversityInformation Technology, Information Technology at Texas State Technical CollegeOdessa High School
Github Skills (107)
hugo-theme10
hugo10
grayscale10
terraform10
multilingual10
graph10
docker10
bootstrap10
infrastructure-as-code10
hashicorp9
activitypub9
mastodon9
high-performance9
devops9
kubernetes9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bocan/odin
Aug 2024 - Jul 2026
This is the Opentofu code used to build my docker compose powered webserver on an AWS SPOT instance.
Contributions:1 review, 21 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 10 months
awsdockeropentofuspotterraform
bocan/AllWorkAndNoPlay
Oct 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 7 months
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