Chris Pates
Senior Specialist Technical Account Manager (Cloud Ops) at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorChris Pates is a Senior Specialist Technical Account Manager (Cloud Ops) at AWS with 11 years’ experience helping organisations operate mission-critical cloud workloads at scale. He blends hands-on DevOps and cloud engineering skills with strategic operational design, contributing to AWS frameworks like the Well-Architected Operational Excellence pillar and Cloud Adoption Framework. Chris has led large, sensitive migrations (petabyte-scale life sciences data), federated SSO and CDN projects across four continents, and improved CI/CD and deployment automation for open-source tooling such as awslabs/ssosync. Known for pragmatic creativity, he advises when to adopt emerging technologies and translates high-level strategy into achievable short-term milestones. Based in the UK, he’s focused on governance, reliability and operational excellence while mentoring field teams to raise domain knowledge across AWS.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
aws10
codebuild10
aws-codepipeline10
pipeline10
pipe10
cicd10
dockers9
docker9
go8
serverless8
terraform5
terraformer5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/ssosync
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Populate AWS SSO directly with your G Suite users and groups using either a CLI or AWS Lambda
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:2 releases, 18 reviews, 286 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the CI/CD pipeline and deployment configurations within the AWS environment. Their work involved migrating from `sed` to `diff` for patching, adjusting build processes with tools like `goreleaser`, and implementing CodePipeline support. The user also worked on setting up and improving the CodeBuild environment, integrating git variables for accurate metadata, and configuring the staging and production deployments.
aws-lambdaaws-ssoclilambda
Arkivum/ArkCargo
Dec 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 18 PRs, 90 pushes in 1 year 6 months
rustcargo
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