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Christopher Shaun Godwin

Charles Schwab M&T Bank Series B → IPO
Manager, Cloud, DevSecOps

Features

Generative AI Implementation

2 years building with generative AI: a custom chat resume assistant, agent-driven workflows, and AI automation for infrastructure.

Leadership

Managed 8 direct reports across 4 cross-functional teams, delivering 3 major platform initiatives on schedule.

Hybrid-Cloud/Multicloud

Designed a multi-cloud platform serving 10+ client environments at 99.95% uptime.

Kubernetes

2M+ daily authentications across multi-region GKE clusters with 99.99% uptime.

Containers

Built Vagrant/Docker dev environments mirroring production stacks, serving 40+ developers.

Continuous Integration

Migrated 50+ pipelines from Jenkins to GitLab CI; CIS SCM best practices across 40+ repositories.

Continuous Deployment

Reduced deployment cycles 80% and moved release frequency from weekly to daily.

Reliability Engineering

Great at identifying and mitigating potential sources of failure — 99.99% uptime at Schwab, 4-9s availability at IGT.

Architecture Design

Designing for Business and Technical Requirements — 12 GCP patterns adopted by 5 teams, cutting design review cycles 40%.

Security

RBAC, Least Privilege, and Just-in-Time Access; cloud identity integrated with Active Directory, EntraID, and LDAP.

Compliance

Experience staying compliant with regulations and IT standards — CIS benchmarks enforced through automated pipelines.

Entrepreneurial

Owned and run two businesses; built proprietary prediction models for startup evaluation.

Process Introspection

I define and edit technical and business processes.

Development & Operations

Unifying fragmented workflows into standardized IaC pipelines — cutting manual intervention 85% across 50+ subscription scopes.

SEO & Marketing

Worked in marketing shops for 20 years; grew up in a family that owned and operated printing presses.

Migration Planning

40+ migrations across 7 regions and datacenters — provisioning time cut from months to weeks.

Applications

Standardized CI/CD serving 30+ application teams with 99% deployment success.

Integrity

Working for financial institutions for the last 7 years.

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