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Customer login platform on GCP. 2M+ daily authentications across multi-region GKE. 384k logins per minute at market open.
Christopher Shaun Godwin
Open to Staff+ · Series B → IPO
Christopher
Shaun Godwin
Manager, Cloud, DevSecOps — 25+ years
Charles Schwab M&T Bank IGT Series B → IPO
Base of Operations
01 — BUFFALO
Buffalo, NY
Home datacenter in Buffalo, New York — zone-segmented networking across five functional layers: edge, network, compute, data, apps. Hardware that mirrors the same architectural patterns used at scale in production cloud.
The live network diagram on this site fetches real topology from an API at runtime. Every node, link, and status reflects infrastructure that is actually running.
Infrastructure at Scale
02 — CLOUD + ON-PREM
Cloud + On-Prem
Multi-cloud platform design across GCP, AWS, and Azure — GKE clusters handling 2M+ daily authentications at 384k logins per minute during market open, hybrid datacenter operations, IaC provisioning that cuts setup from months to weeks.
40+ migrations across 7 regions and datacenters. Self-service platform serving 60+ application teams. Continuous configuration across 1,000+ nodes.
CI/CD & Automation
03 — EVERY DEPLOY
Every Deploy,
Automated
Deployment cycles cut 80%. Release frequency moved from weekly to daily. 50+ pipelines consolidated into standardized templates serving 30+ application teams at 99% deployment success, with automated rollback.
CIS SCM best practices enforced through code across 40+ repositories. Branch policies, merge-request gating, 40% annual pipeline cost reduction.
Reliability Record
04 — FOUR NINES
Four Nines
99.99% uptime at Charles Schwab across multi-region GKE with 24/7 on-call and BigQuery-driven operational analytics. 4-nines availability across 25-node mirrored clusters spanning 80+ application servers at IGT.
Reliability is identifying failure modes before they become incidents — capacity planning, load testing, architecture review, proactive SLO tracking baked into the build pipeline.
EXPERTISE
CLOUD PLATFORMS
- GCP
- AWS
- Azure
- GKE
- Compute Engine
- BigQuery
- Cloud Armor
- VPC
- IAM
CONTAINERS & INFRA
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Puppet
- OpenShift
- Service Mesh
DEVSECOPS
- CI/CD
- GitOps
- RBAC
- Zero Trust
- JIT Access
- CIS Benchmarks
- EntraID
- LDAP
OBSERVABILITY
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Stackdriver
- SLO/SLA tracking
- Incident response
- Capacity planning
AI & AUTOMATION
- Generative AI
- Claude API
- LLM workflows
- Agent automation
- Python
- Node.js
- Vue 3
LEADERSHIP
- 8 direct reports
- 4 cross-functional teams
- 3 platform initiatives
- Process introspection
- Migration planning
- Entrepreneurial
WHAT I BUILD
01Cloud Platforms
Multi-Cloud, One Model
GCP, AWS, and Azure platform design. GKE clusters handle 2M+ daily authentications. 40+ migrations across 7 regions and datacenters.
02Infrastructure
Kubernetes, Defined in Code
Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible across 1,000+ nodes. IaC provisioning cuts setup from months to weeks.
03CI/CD & GitOps
Every Deploy, Automated
50+ pipelines consolidated into standardized templates for 30+ application teams. 99% deployment success with automated rollback.
04Observability
Measure Everything
Prometheus, Grafana, and SLO tracking in the pipeline. Capacity planning and incident response before users notice.
OUTCOME STORIES
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Hybrid datacenter operations with banking-grade security. Terraform across 40+ migrations. Ansible continuous configuration on 1,000+ nodes. CI/CD consolidation cut deployment cycles 80%.
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4-nines availability across 25-node mirrored clusters. 80+ application servers, symmetric and survivable.
Trusted by the pioneers
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- GitLab
- Prometheus
Questions, answered
Is the datacenter real?
Yes. The datacenter page renders a live network diagram of a home datacenter. 17 hosts appear as nodes across five zones: EDGE, NETWORK, COMPUTE, DATA, APPS. The backend probes each host. Alive hosts glow in their zone color.
How does the fitness engine work?
The fitness engine compares a job description with the actual resume. Four steps run in order: Fit Check, Ask AI About Me, Knowledge Graph, and Dynamic Lens. Paste a job description to start.
What is Ask AI?
Ask AI is a dedicated page at /resume-wizard/. It runs the full fitness chain: Fit Check, Ask AI About Me, Knowledge Graph, and Dynamic Lens. The hero button links straight to it.
Is the git graph live?
Yes. The git graph renders the actual commit history of this repository. Every branch, merge, and tag comes from the repository itself and regenerates with each build.
How is this site deployed?
A push to the develop branch triggers GitLab CI/CD. The pipeline builds container images and runs health checks. Argo Rollouts promotes a canary release while Istio routes traffic on Kubernetes.
Insights on DevOps & AI
Watch the Walkthrough
08 — TWO MINUTES
Tap to watch
The Datacenter, Live
A two-minute walkthrough of the live network diagram — seventeen hosts, five zones, real probes. The topology renders from an API at runtime; what you see is infrastructure that is actually running.