Chris Roberts
President Owner at Sino-American Sourcing Company, LLC.
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Roberts is a seasoned international sourcing and trade executive with over 35 years of hands-on importing/exporting experience and 15 years of documented professional activity running Sino-American Sourcing Company. He specializes in product sourcing from Asia, quality control, freight forwarding, and navigating US Customs and Homeland Security requirements to deliver cost-effective, high-quality goods to manufacturers across the Americas. As President/Owner he has maintained close relationships with hundreds of Asian manufacturers and run multi-country operations including offices in China, India, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines. Beyond trade, he has meaningful technical chops evidenced by open-source DevOps and backend contributions to well-known projects like Chef, Packer, Fog and Berkshelf, showing an ability to marry logistics expertise with automation and infrastructure reliability. Known for pragmatic negotiation and cultural fluency, he helps clients reduce total landed cost while preserving product integrity. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he combines entrepreneurial leadership with deep operational knowledge of global supply chains.
16 years of coding experience
Portland State University
Github Skills (52)
libvirt10
sensu10
cookbook10
postgresql10
python10
apidoc10
testing10
configuration-management10
storage10
python-multiprocessing10
ruby10
rabbitmq10
erb10
chef-client10
automation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/postgresql
Nov 2012 - May 2015
Development repository for the postgresql cookbook
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the PostgreSQL cookbook by implementing attribute-driven configuration and generic templates. They refactored the code to use boolean values for SSL and removed duplicated code. Additionally, the user integrated an apt repository for the latest PostgreSQL packages, including Debian support, and made several updates to the PostgreSQL configuration and HBA file. Furthermore, the user resolved a gem installation issue within a Chef environment.
postgresqlchef-resourcechefmanaged-by-terraform
vagrant-libvirt/vagrant-libvirt
Nov 2018 - Jun 2021
Vagrant provider for libvirt.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the automation and reliability of the `vagrant-libvirt` provider. Their work involved refining the halt and shutdown processes, introducing actions for graceful shutdowns, and updating existing actions to use built-in Vagrant features. This includes adding specific actions and modifying the existing logic to improve the handling of virtual machine lifecycle events, and improve test coverage of shutdown functionality.
libvirtvagrantrubyvagrant-providers
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