Caprock Canyon, Quitaque, TX
I'm Chris Krough, ckrough on the socials.
Engineering Leader shaping engineering orgs, development workflows, and platform architectures
Animal Advocate fostering, training, and walking rescue dogs (and tending to cats)
Fueled by optimizing complex systems (people or tech) and the occasional mass migration
Some things I've done:
- Refactored engineering platforms to improve developer experience, reliability, and security.
- Migrated hundreds of services across half a dozen cloud environments with zero downtime
- Scaled a platform through >6,000% revenue growth and $3B in transactions
- Built telemetry across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters on multiple continents
Career
- RBCx: Led platform through acquisitions; 100s of services migrated, >99.999% uptime
- OJO Labs: Scaled platform through 6,700% revenue growth and $3B in transactions
- Amazon: AWS Labs, EKS beta tester; automated 150+ K8s clusters over three continents
- uStudio: Transformed engineering org into full-stack devops culture
- Bazaarvoice: 50K req/sec, 30B monthly pageviews; datacenter-to-cloud migration
- Rackspace: Global network ops across 10 data centers, 1M+ metrics/sec
- University of Pennsylvania: Veterinary medical systems; built data center, ran networks
Workflow: Agentic Development · Agent Skills · Context Engineering
AI/ML: RAG Systems · LangChain · Prompt Engineering · Deep Learning
Languages: Python · Go · Bash
Platforms: Kubernetes · Docker · AWS
Domains: Developer Experience · Platform Engineering · Reliability · Security
- drover: AI application for knowledge classification and organization
- retriever: RAG-powered Q&A system for organizational documents with source citations
- agentspaces: CLI for managing isolated git worktrees for AI coding agents. Parallel development with auto-configured Python environments.
- Team of Rivals: Strategic decisions via Claude AI Skills
- AWS Glacier Cleaner: Because deleting Glacier vaults shouldn't be painful
Working through the Deep Learning Specialization (Andrew Ng) learning neural nets, CNNs, sequence models, Transformers. Building AI apps with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and LangChain.
Contributions from my Amazon days:
- AWS Service Operator Kubernetes CRDs for AWS
- AWS VPN Controller K8s controller for VPN management
- AWS EKS Cluster Controller Multi-cluster EKS management
- Volunteering with Friends of Homeless Animals dog rescue & adoption
- Former telescope wrangler at the Austin Astronomical Society
- Outdoor and nature photography
AI Transformation Consulting — Helping small businesses without tech teams adopt agentic AI solutions. I interview stakeholders, assess workflows, build custom tools, and provide ongoing hosting and vendor support. From "we use spreadsheets" to "AI handles that now."
Fractional Engineering Leadership — Part-time platform engineering, infrastructure, and security leadership for growing teams. I've scaled platforms through 6,000% growth; I can help you build the foundation for yours.