Chris Gelhaus
Director Infrastructure Engineering at Sagent
Auburn, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolChris Gelhaus is a seasoned infrastructure engineering leader with 11 years in cloud and DevOps roles and over two decades of broader IT experience, now serving as Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Sagent. He has progressed from hands-on database and networking roles into architecting cloud-native solutions, with deep practical experience in Terraform, AWS, Azure, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code. Known for bridging legacy systems and modern cloud practices, he previously led solutions architecture and automation initiatives at Alfa Insurance, driving PoCs for container migrations and multi-cloud research. Based in Auburn, Alabama, Chris combines operational rigor from his database and systems administration background with strategic leadership of engineering teams. He’s the kind of leader who still enjoys building and deploying infrastructure himself, translating business requirements into resilient, auditable cloud platforms.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Business Administration, Bachelor's of Science, Business Administration at University of South AlabamaBachelors of Business; Associates degree, Management of Information Systems; Networking Technologies, Bachelors of Business; Associates degree, Management of Information Systems; Networking Technologies at Auburn University Montgomery
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Github Skills (17)
octopus-deploy10
docker7
azure6
rancher6
terraform6
orchestration5
azure-resource-manager5
cattle5
terraform-provider5
kubernetes5
container-management4
iaas3
powershell3
jenkins-builder3
windows2
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chrisgelhaus/BCPJSON
Nov 2019 - Jul 2025
Contributions:14 PRs, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
chrisgelhaus/qifutil
Mar 2025 - Jan 2026
Quicken QIF Export Utility
Contributions:9 releases, 5 PRs, 23 pushes in 10 months
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