Chrys Swingler
Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChrys Swingler is a Senior Database Reliability Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience turning brittle infrastructure into resilient, observable systems across startups and large teams. Rooted in a childhood habit of tinkering with electronics, Chrys progressed through helpdesk and system administration into SRE and DBRE roles at companies like Sprout Social, Slack, and now Zapier. He specializes in MySQL and Cassandra reliability, automation with Chef/Puppet, and modern observability and Kubernetes-driven service discovery, with a track record of cutting primary recovery times from hours to seconds. A committed mentor, Chrys excels at reverse-engineering poorly documented systems and translating that knowledge into team enablement and durable runbooks so he can truly step away when needed. Based in Chicago, he blends deep operational craft with a pragmatic focus on shipping measurable reliability improvements.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Associates in Applied Science, Network Administration and Security, Associates in Applied Science, Network Administration and Security at College of Lake CountyComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-ParksideComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Github Skills (97)
high-availability10
terraform10
ruby10
mysql-replication10
command-line-tool10
database10
mysql10
graph10
replication10
terraform-provider10
aws10
database-tools10
proxy9
percona9
snapshots9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cswingler/freeipa-vagrant
Feb 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 5 months
vagrantsettingansibledockerfreeipa
cswingler/terraform-aws-route53-fastmail
Mar 2022 - Mar 2026
Setups an AWS Route 53 zone for fastmail with needed MX, SPF, and TXT resources.
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
txtzonefastmailsetupsroute
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