Chris Samuelson

Current

Technical Director at Black Snow Labs
Technical Director at Knetwit Incorporated

Past

Owner at Rious LLC
Director of Trading at Hillier Capital
Contractor at Houting Computer

Deskside Support at Johnson Controls Automotive

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Chris Samuelson’s Summary

Systems Architect, Engineer and Developer, Database Administrator, and Project Manager in a variety of applications. Focused on web scale projects, leveraging distributed computing and horizontally scaling cloud based deployments.

I have been involved in the design, implementation and maintenance of systems ranging from small client/server networks with 4 nodes to retail back-end systems spread across 100's of sites in multiple states, to most recently, web scale cloud based applications.

While I am a competent developer, my skill and drive is focused on systems engineering and architecture. Making decisions which support both short and long term business objectives, reducing technical risks and managing costs.

Chris Samuelson’s Specialties:

Web application development with MVC frameworks including Ruby on Rails, PHP symfony & Zend, and Java Server Faces/ICE Faces. Designing, implementing and maintaining scalable application architectures. Engineering systems which include Linux HA, Apache HTTPD, nginx, Lucene/Solr, Nagios, Puppet, Chef. Skill and experience with programing languages including C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, Php and Lisp (Common Lisp and elisp).

Chris Samuelson’s Experience

Technical Director

Black Snow Labs

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)
Technical Director

Knetwit Incorporated

(E-Learning industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )
Owner

Rious LLC

(E-Learning industry)

2003 — 2007 (4 years )
Director of Trading

Hillier Capital

(E-Learning industry)

2002 — 2007 (5 years )
Contractor

Houting Computer

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2005 (5 years )
Deskside Support

Johnson Controls Automotive

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JCI; Automotive industry)

2002 — 2002 (less than a year)