Chris Samuelson

Education

Holland High School
University of Illinois

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Information Technology and Services

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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).