Christopher Watson
Senior Datacenter Technician
South Hill, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Watson is a Senior Datacenter Technician with 11 years of hands-on experience maintaining and scaling mission-critical data center operations, currently supporting Microsoft since 2017. He progressed from site-level technician and shift lead roles at Atos—where he managed teams and handled server, networking, and ticketing workflows—to senior responsibilities at Microsoft, demonstrating deep expertise in HP/Dell servers, Cisco/F5/Juniper networking, RAID, DNS/DHCP, and firmware management. Based in South Hill, Virginia, he blends technical troubleshooting with operational leadership, routinely executing hardware audits, deployments, and complex connectivity restorations. Also a senior technical writer on GitHub, he pairs practical datacenter skills with clear documentation practices that improve runbooks and incident response. Colleagues rely on him for durable, process-driven solutions that keep large-scale infrastructure resilient and auditable.
11 years of coding experience
Associate of Science - AS, Information Technology, Associate of Science - AS, Information Technology at Southside Virginia Community College
Github Skills (17)
microsoft10
azure-loadbalancer10
windows10
cybersecurity10
microsoft-azure10
consumption10
security10
windows-server10
code-documentation10
azure10
azure-dns10
azure-virtual-machine9
cloud-native9
fileshare8
azure-cosmos-db6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/mslearn-build-azure-vm-templates
Dec 2019 - Jul 2021
Code used in the Build Azure virtual machine templates module for Microsoft Learn
Contributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
azure-virtual-machine
MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:6 reviews, 99 commits, 3 PRs in 4 months
microsoft-azureskilling
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